VG Chartz Tech/Futurology Thread - 10 “Game Changing” Technologies Poised to Transform the World in 2015

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Gilgamesh said:

Are we on the brink of creating artificial life? Scientists digitise the brain of a WORM and place it inside a robot

• The OpenWorm global project is making a 'digital' worm
• Their project is recreating the neurons and cells in C. elegans
• It is the simplest organism we know of but has similarities to humans
• 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
• In a video it acts and behaves just like the worm would in the real world
• Next year the team will allow people to download their own digital worm 

Source and video here

A-Life is a technical word already in use for something that already existed for years.
OT I want to become a digital being. That sounds fun. Feeding on knowledge with no other needs.