I would be interested to know how you plan to demonstrate to the world that the experiment was a success.
If the goal was to upload a cat, for example, you could demonstrate that it runs under the simulated couch when a simulated vacuum cleaner comes around and that it runs into the simulated kitchen when it hears a simulated electric can opener. I am curious what high-level behaviors are considered typical of C. elegans.
I won't subject you to cute cat stories, but real cats do weird things as well as stereotypical things.
This post is shameless self-promotion, but I'm told that's probably okay in the Discussion section. For context, as some of you are aware, I'm aiming to model C. elegans based on systematic high-throughput experiments - that is, to upload a worm. I'm still working on course requirements and lab training at Harvard's Biophysics Ph.D. program, but this remains the plan for my thesis.
Last semester I gave this lecture to Marvin Minsky's AI class, because Marvin professes disdain for everything neuroscience, and I wanted to give his students—and him—a fair perspective of how basic neuroscience might be changing for the better, and seems a particularly exciting field to be in right about now. The lecture is about 22 minutes long, followed by over an hour of questions and answers, which cover a lot of the memespace that surrounds this concept. Afterward, several students reported to me that their understanding of neuroscience was transformed.
I only just now got to encoding and uploading this recording; I believe that many of the topics covered could be of interest to the LW community (especially those with a background in AI and an interest in brains), perhaps worthy of discussion, and I hope you agree.