Neural map of worm brain uploaded to robot

[OlekKing]

I can and did

 

I was imagining driller from transformers

Shit i didn't imagine anything as drastic, just a bunch of small worms chewing through buildings and foundations!

[ManWithBeard1990]

Relax. That neural map is only based on our current understanding of how neurons work. Probably doesn't even include the neural plasticity that we know these things exhibit but not what triggers it etc. Not to mention a worm has only about 300 neurons, as compared to about 20 billion for the average human. It'll be a long time before AI catches up to humans if we decide to go that route. Also, until such phenomenons as neural plasticity, and short-and long-term potentiation, which are yet to be fully understood and more importantly accurately replicated in software, all you'll end up with if you do this is a brain that can do reflexes and react to certain impulses, but probably can't make logical decisions and certainly can't learn new behaviour. And when it is understood and replicated, but not all too accurately, I predict such AIs will be even more susceptible to such disorders as epilepsy and depression than the real ones are.

[ShadowCaptain]

Shit i didn't imagine anything as drastic, just a bunch of small worms chewing through buildings and foundations!

 

No I meant I was imagining that, but on the scale of a normal garden worm

[OlekKing]

Relax. That neural map is only based on our current understanding of how neurons work. Probably doesn't even include the neural plasticity that we know these things exhibit but not what triggers it etc. Not to mention a worm has only about 300 neurons, as compared to about 20 billion for the average human. It'll be a long time before AI catches up to humans if we decide to go that route.

Just having some fun with hyperboles.

This is still a step forward, still an impressive feat.

[ManWithBeard1990]

Just having some fun with hyperboles.

This is still a step forward, still an impressive feat.

It's certainly interesting, I'll give it that much. But the truth is it changes nothing and it's been done before.

[Tech_Dreamer]

I was imagining driller from transformers

 

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[ZetZet]

But humans have souls. Something man simply cannot create.

Funny.

[Beskamir]

I'm still waiting for "mouse simulator" where someone connects a mouse directly to VR through the mouse's brain. (That's actually one of the first things what I want to achieve when (if) I take neuroscience)

[Syntaxvgm]

PFFT GET ON MAH LEVAL SCRUB!

[Owade73]

Some type of modification must have been made for the 'brain' to learn to move with it's new set of wheels

[mr moose]

Meh,  I don't find this very interesting, I was actually expecting something a little more breakthroughish.

[zacRupnow]

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Dude your signature is perfect!

[OlekKing]

Dude your signature is perfect!

My sig? Thanks. What's perfect about it?

[Trik'Stari]

So, apparently scientists are getting really friggin bored these days, and decided to put a simulation of a worm's mind into a robot body.

 

http://www.iflscience.com/technology/worms-mind-robot-body

 

 

 

 

Beneath the skin of a simple worm with transparent skin, there are 302 neurons that have been mapped meticulously by researchers in what is known as a connectome. This tiny, one millimeter-long worm has been studied in laboratories around the world, and now it's nervous system has been transplanted into the body of a Lego Mindstorms EV3 robot. The worm they used is Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans).

 

 

Apparently, the robot acts a lot like C. elegans: Stimulation of its nose made it stop moving, while touching a food sensor made it move forward. “What we found is that rather than just random, crazy movements by the robot, it actually responded to its environment in the same manner as the biological worm,” said Timothy Busbice, one of the founders of the OpenWorm project, to Gizmodo.

 

 

The simulation is not perfect quite yet. According to the Smithsonian, the program has some simplifications on the thresholds needed to trigger the so-called neuron firing. For more detailed information on the robotic worm, read the article written by Busbice for Radar. 

 

 

So this is pretty weird. Kind of cool considering that it's a tiny first step towards truly understanding a human mind. And I for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

[dizmo]

Cool, but a repost

Creepy too, though.

There's some things we just shouldn't do..

[Trik'Stari]

Cool, but a repost

Creepy too, though.

There's some things we just shouldn't do..

Repost?

 

WHERE!? I didn't see it >.<

 

DAMNIT. http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/253457-neural-map-of-worm-brain-uploaded-to-robot/

 

Oh well. The article I used is 4 days old. Didn't realize there was a post about this last month.

[LukaP]

interesting. 

 

im more baffled they managed to do it with a mindstorm, last i used them (NXT) you could barely run simple C code on them

[Oshino Shinobu]

This is definitely going to be the end of the world. We'll be destroyed by millions of worm robots. 

 

It's pretty cool though, if a bit weird  

[dizmo]

Repost?

 

WHERE!? I didn't see it >.<

 

DAMNIT. http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/253457-neural-map-of-worm-brain-uploaded-to-robot/

 

Oh well.

It's a few weeks old, for sure. Possibly over a month. But this was the only place I would have read something like that.

[dizmo]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/253457-neural-map-of-worm-brain-uploaded-to-robot/

 

There it is.

[Guest Philosophy]

I sit here baffled by a backwards indication of decent thought process..

[christianled59]

If we simulate the human brain, would it have a consciousness?

[Trik'Stari]

If we simulate the human brain, would it have a consciousness?

Depends, how do you measure whether or not something has a consciousness, when you can't really define or locate said consciousness.

[christianled59]

Depends, how do you measure whether or not something has a consciousness, when you can't really define or locate said consciousness.

If it has logic and means of reasoning for its own logic. Being "conscience" of something means to be aware of. Therefore, if the said simulation is aware of its surroundings, it's existence, and logic, then I would say it has a consciousness.