{"id":218382,"date":"2025-07-21T02:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/we-can-must-and-will-simulate-nematode-brains"},"modified":"2025-07-21T02:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:08:07","slug":"we-can-must-and-will-simulate-nematode-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/we-can-must-and-will-simulate-nematode-brains","title":{"rendered":"We Can, Must, and Will Simulate Nematode Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-can-must-and-will-simulate-nematode-brains2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have spent over 25 years trying \u2014 and failing \u2014 to build computer simulations of the smallest brain we know. Today, we finally have the tools to pull it off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have spent over 25 years trying \u2014 and failing \u2014 to build computer simulations of the smallest brain we know. Today, we finally have the tools to pull it off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218382","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\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}