Jandila comments on Whole Brain Emulation: Looking At Progress On C. elgans - Less Wrong

40 Post author: jkaufman 29 October 2011 03:21PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 November 2011 04:44:59AM 1 point [-]

You need more than just muscle cells to do a whole-body emulation here -- c, elegans has roughly 1000 cells all told (varies depending on sex; hermaphrodites have somewhat fewer, males somewhat more).