[OneTwoFree]

Will we ever be able to scan the wiring of this spider's neurons and "run it" on a computer? That would be amazing, I think. Then we could create virtual worlds for these virtual spiders and let them evolve, supposedly much faster than "normal" evolution.

[malka]

Letting them evolve suggestions that we simulate at the dna / protein level. We are far from there.

[moptar]

Hopefully. There's a project attempting to do that with a simpler animal, a kind of worm on a couple of Amazon GPU clusters:

http://www.artificialbrains.com/openworm