{"id":168865,"date":"2023-08-01T22:24:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T03:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-put-a-worm-brain-in-a-lego-robot-body-and-it-worked"},"modified":"2023-08-01T22:24:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T03:24:45","slug":"scientists-put-a-worm-brain-in-a-lego-robot-body-and-it-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-put-a-worm-brain-in-a-lego-robot-body-and-it-worked","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Put a Worm Brain in a Lego Robot Body \u2014 And It Worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YWQnzylhgHc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Year 2017 \ud83d\ude17\ud83d\ude01<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The brain is really little more than a collection of electrical signals. If we can learn to catalogue those then, in theory, you could upload someone\u2019s mind into a computer, allowing them to live forever as a digital form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/consciousness\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">consciousness<\/a>, just like in the Johnny Depp film <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transcendence_%282014_film%29\">Transcendence<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not just science fiction. Sure, scientists aren\u2019t anywhere near close to achieving such a feat with humans (and even if they could, the ethics would be pretty fraught), but there\u2019s few better examples than the time an international team of researchers managed to do just that with the roundworm <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caenorhabditis_elegans\">Caenorhabditis elegans<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>C. elegans<\/em> is a little nematodes that have been extensively studied by scientists \u2014 we know all their genes and their nervous system has been analysed many times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2017 \ud83d\ude17\ud83d\ude01 The brain is really little more than a collection of electrical signals. If we can learn to catalogue those then, in theory, you could upload someone\u2019s mind into a computer, allowing them to live forever as a digital form of consciousness, just like in the Johnny Depp film Transcendence. But it\u2019s not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}