Worm’s brain mapped and replicated digitally to control obstacle-avoiding robot.

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    2 months ago

    Damn dude, why you gotta do 'em like that? Hope someday he finds psychelics or something lol

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      They were actually pretty grateful, feeling it had set them up for a lot of positive realizations down the line. We play D&D now and they’re working on their masters, so I guess they weren’t too badly scarred…

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        2 months ago

        How old were they at the time and how did the subject come up?

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          Not very satisfying answers I’m afraid, they were probably 8-10 and I have no idea how we got onto the topic since this was 15+ years ago.

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            2 months ago

            But why are you proud? Or was that more tongue-in-cheek?

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              2 months ago

              I get the impression you don’t think this was a good thing to have done, hence the interrogation?

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                I wouldn’t intentionally give a childhood a existential crisis, no, but I’m sure I could inadvertently. Didn’t mean it to feel like an interrogation, sorry. Was just curious.