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<p><b>Introduction</b></p>
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<p>The worm Caenorhabditis elegans has just 300 neurons and around 1,000 cells - and now a robot has been created that mimics the actions of this simple organism. The OpenWorm team from California is making a 'digital' worm. Their project is recreating the neurons and cells in C. elegans, the simplest organism we know of. By making a digital worm the team hope to create artificial life. They have implanted the digital 'mind' of the worm into a Lego machine.</p>
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<div>The OpenWorm team from California is making a 'digital' worm. Their project is recreating the neurons and cells in C. elegans, the simplest organism we know of. By making a digital worm the team hope to create artificial life. They have implanted the digital 'mind' of the worm into a Lego machine. The OpenWorm project, a global effort including researchers from the US and UK, is attempting to create the world’s first digital animal. Earlier this year they ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the creation of a worm you can download onto your computer.</div>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">What is “Reality rdquo;?</span></divb><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><divp class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Caenorhabditis elegans nematode To discuss about reality, we must define what reality is only around 0.04 inches (1mm) in length, Reality is transparent and feeds on bacteriathe conjectured state of things as they actually exist, such rather than as Ethey may appear or might be imagined[1]. coli. It moves around in water at a rate of about 0.04 inches (1mm) per second. Despite being composed of just 1Certain ideas from physics, philosophy, sociology,000 cellsliterary criticism, the creature exhibits relatively advanced behaviour such as finding a mate and avoiding predatorsother fields shape various theories of reality.Such attitudes are summarized in the popular statement,  quot;The worm has been the focus of huge amounts of research and was the first multi-celled organism to have its entire genome mapped.Perception is reality quot;And they have also created a robot that mimics the actions of a real-life worm.or  quot;C. elegans Life is one of the simplest forms of life we know, thanks to its limited neurons and cells, and thus researchers have been able to accurately map its body.how you perceive reality quot;The worm, though simple, contains 80 per cent of the same genes as humans and can be studied as a more basic version of complex life.or  quot;With a brain, stomach and bodily functions, the worm has provided scientists reality is what you can get away with a way to study life on a much smaller and more manageable scale. quot;In this latest project the researchers mapped the entire physiology of a C. elegans organism(Robert Anton Wilson).According to these concepts, I would like to define reality is  ldquo;They then recreated the wormthing(s) can be observed and perceived by many people&rsquordquo;s brain, cells and more in digital formother words, complete with neurons &lsquoldquo;firingobjectively existing thing(s)&rsquordquo; to make decisions. Scientists re-create worm brain with Lego machine<o:p></divo:p><div/span> </divp><divp class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In a recent comment on futrology site EdgeAs an example of reality, SpaceX and Tesla Motors chief Elon Musk warned of the dangers of we discussed artificial intelligence<i>C. In his comment he feared that the risk elegans</i> of ‘something seriously dangerous happening’ could be The OpenWorm project in as few as five yearsclass. Although he doesn’t go into detail, he alludes What I have to claim about this &lsquoldquo;digital superintelligencesBioinformatics&rsquordquo; and internet bots as being among the potential problems facing humanityclass is this: is this artificial <i>C. In the comment he says the pace of progress in AI elegans</i> is a &lsquoldquo;incredibly fastreal organism&rsquordquo;. He continued? In biology, major characteristics of life are seven: cell &lsquoamp;I am not alone in thinking we should be worried. ‘The leading AI companies have taken great steps organization, energy use and metabolism, responds to ensure safety. ‘They recognise the dangerstimuli, regulation and homeostasis, but believe that they can shape growth and control the digital superintelligences development, reproduction, and prevent bad ones from escaping into the internetbiological evolution. That remains Then, does this worm satisfy these features?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">To know this, we have to be seen…’ The ultimate goal know some detail of the artificial organism. In this latest The OpenWorm project is to give people access to their own digital worm called WormSim to study on their computers through , the researchers mapped the OpenWorm projectentire physiology of a C. elegans organism.They recreated the worm rsquo;Following the successful Kickstarter campaigns brain, this should be available next yearcells in digital. But they They have also inserted the artificial brain of the worm into a Lego machine, specifically a Lego Mindstorms EV3 robot. By recreating the 302 neurons and 959 cells of this tiny nematode worm, the robot can then be left to ‘mimic’ the actions of a real-life worm. This means it moves around, runs into obstacles like walls and also turns. The robot is very basic for now, and does not possess the ability to perform more execute complex functions such as eating[2]. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We can get some important information from this;It’s an important stepFirstly, it is not made of cells, thoughof course, but it is organized well to creating artificial life that can think for itselfachieve simple movement. Secondly, energy use and metabolism are done by electronical way.Thirdly, While this worm it recognize environment, even if it is a very basic form of life, and respond to object(s). Fourthly, it may cannot regulate its own body well, and needs to be a precursor adjust by human. Fifthly, it cannot growth itself. Sixthly, it cannot reproduce offspring also. Fianlly, it does not have ability to making much more complex animalsevolve itself. By these factors, we cannot call this robot as organism. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Nonetheless, ultimate goal of this robot is imitation of C. This will elegans, such that regulation and growth would be a huge undertaking, though - even a mouse has 22 million neurons achieved in its brainfuture. ‘The mere act And self-reproduction of trying to put a working model together causes us to realise what robot is still developing[2]. What we know can assume is that reproduction and evolution of the robot can be possible maybe in near future, and what that kind of robot can fit for major features of life, even we don't knowcannot imagine that kind of thing yet.</p><p class="MsoNormal">In my personal opinion, reality and real organism can be objective and persived by numerous people, like I referred above already,so this C.elegans robot can show possiblity of change of definition about reality and real life.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">&rsquonbsp; John Long, a roboticist and neuroscientist at Vassar College in New York State, told New Scientist</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Reference<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[1]Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div>[2] http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/05/researchers-build-robot-can-reproduce </div>