[Darvon]

If it was just a matter of horsepower we could perfectly simulate animals with simpler brains already.

[hprotagonist]

"why does OpenWorm need a distributed supercomputer when the thing it's simulating needs about 10 millicalories a day" is one of those category of questions people don't like thinking about too much.

[anotheryou]

Are you sure the bulk of it is not emulating physics and environment?

I mean how many resources can you even throw at "302 neurons and 95 muscle cells"?

edit: down the wormhole I go

just look at the screenshots of

the "brain": https://github.com/openworm/c302

and the sim: https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm/blob/master/README.md#q...

Reading further, more physics:

> Some simulators enable ion channel dynamics to be included and enable neurons to be described in detail in space (multi-compartmental models), while others ignore ion channels and treat neurons as points connected directly to other neurons. In OpenWorm, we focus on multi-compartmental neuron models with ion channels.