Lego robot controlled by artificial worm brain developed by OpenWorm project
Lego robot controlled by artificial worm brain developed by OpenWorm project
Worm's brain mapped and replicated digitally to control obstacle-avoiding robot.
Extremely old news, but still very cool.
We used to have one of these roaming around my college compaci lab, hooked up to a big red bluetooth button that would recompile the neurological structure when pressed. When we were feeling particularly nasty (or they were waxing particularly poetic), we used to challenge the humanities majors to push the button and 'kill' the worm.
I'm not particularly proud of the fact I made quite a few people break down completely with the implications of asking them to do that - or more sadistically, by repeatedly pressing the button and asking them why it mattered. I got punched in the face by a vegan for that one, which was fair enough tbh. Anyways, the reality of the project really isnt something most people are prepared to address.
I think it's good that you made some people come to solid conclusions regarding their views on the matter, but I'm sure it didn't win you many friends.
Trauma as a problem solving tool... hmm...
I don't know why the person you're replying to causes me so much revulsion. Probably resonates with some people I'm not in touch. Anyways, live moves on and I decided to block that person.
Life's too short to tolerate asswholes
I had a former summer camp kid come up and credit me with having given them their "first existential crisis" (for explaining that when you die, "you just cease") which I am proud of.
Beware the T0.001
Oh neat, we can give Legos depression.
Can worms be depressed?
To subterranean levels.
Yes.
RFK sweating bullets
He should feel like a proud papa. Hell, they should call it RFK jr.
Can we please never refer to RFK Jr as RFK? Honestly I'd be fine if we never mentioned him at all, but letting him take over the name of the real RFK is a fucking travesty and I will not stand for it.
Neat. We've seen a man with a brain half eaten by a worm, and now we get to see brains made of worms.
Can we get a robot with a RFK brain? Don't know the use, though.
The video has a typo. It uses "it's" instead of "its".
Damn, literally unwatchable. Let's hope they re-upload with a fixed version so we can understand it.
Unacceptable. Such disgusting amateur mistakes make the video unwatchable. I need holy water.
Lol, that was funny! I know I'm being pedantic. I usually make those observations just to scratch an itch. The itch was a bit stronger than usual with this one because it's a journalistic video. That's all.
Why is this post not marked NSFW(not safe for worms)?
Because it's artificial, not the real stuff! Duh
I bet this one could run for President.
That's all very well and good and all, until it meets another worm and wants to talk. Perhaps one of the opposite gender...
Wow, that title was a rollercoaster!
This article is 9 years old. Here's the OpenWorm Wikipedia page.
Edit: still haven't mapped the brain but here's the official site and [the github] (https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm)
Well that sent me down an interesting but short
rabbitholewormhole, ending here. Glad to see I'm not alone in thinking most forms of consciousness copy or transfer that get discussed are actually involving murder/death of the original, even if the resulting copy believes itself to be the same entity and people around it treat it as such.I'd absolutely be one of those "I ain't getting in that transporter" people on Star Trek unless convinced that it truly was a transfer of consciousness, not a copy and destroy.
Mind you, I'd love for that not to be the case, and would love to be convinced otherwise. It kills my enjoyment of stories that are centered around that sort of technology sometimes.
Oddly, the bolded ship-of-Theseus kind of approach doesn't bother me as much - maybe because it feels akin to the continuous death and replacement of individual cells, but if challenged I might have a hard time defending why this bothers me so much less than the Transporter or even Altered Carbon approach.
I was led into the Connectome page which I found quite interesting
You're coming at this from a slightly askew angle. Consciousness is holographic - that is, it's complex behavior arising in the interaction of a more complex system. There's nothing "more" to it than what we see. The transporters from startrek, which destroy then reproduce exactly, would change nothing about your experience. You're just a complex arrangement of atoms, and it doesnt matter where that arrangement occurs so long as it's unique. There is no "you", there's just "stuff" stuck together in a way that lets it think that it can think about itself. A perfect reproduction would result in the same entity, perfectly reproduced.
It's not about you being copied and destroyed. It's about of continued consciousness. You are continually being killed and replaced by neurons dying off and others replacing the function. The problem is getting the information off the neurons without copy and kill. The key would be continuous transfer of neurons over time to a more longlived replacement. So you is still you and not you thinks it's still you. Also... It's up for debate if that matters as you are still a copy if you do nothing. But it solves the continued consciousness problem.