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by anotheryou 2130 days ago
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.