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

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

  • canEnglish
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    4 months ago

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

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      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.

      • canEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

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

        • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

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

          • canEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            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.