Were they trying to simulate a body and an environment? Seems to me that would make the problem much harder, as you’d be trying to simulate reality. (E.g. How does an organic body move through physical space based on neural activity? How does the environment’s effects on the body stimulate neural changes?)
You have to or you haven’t really solved the problem. It’s very much bounded, you do not need to simulate “reality”, you need to approximate the things that the nematode can experience to slightly higher resolution than it can perceive.
So basically you need some kind of dirt dynamics model that has sufficient fidelity to the nematodes very crude senses to be equivalent. It might be easier with an even smaller organism.
Were they trying to simulate a body and an environment? Seems to me that would make the problem much harder, as you’d be trying to simulate reality. (E.g. How does an organic body move through physical space based on neural activity? How does the environment’s effects on the body stimulate neural changes?)
You have to or you haven’t really solved the problem. It’s very much bounded, you do not need to simulate “reality”, you need to approximate the things that the nematode can experience to slightly higher resolution than it can perceive.
So basically you need some kind of dirt dynamics model that has sufficient fidelity to the nematodes very crude senses to be equivalent. It might be easier with an even smaller organism.
Maybe someone should ask the people who were working on it what their main issues were.