A possible indirect way of doing that is by recording the worm’s behavior:
record the behavior under many conditions
design an ANN that has the same architecture as the real worm
train many instances of the ANN on a half of the recordings
select an instance that shows the right behavior on the withheld half of the recordings
if the records are long and diverse enough, and if the ANN is realistic enough, the selected instance will have the weights that are functionally equivalent to the weights of the real worm
The same approach could be used to emulate the brain of a specific human. Although the required compute in this case might be too large to become practical in the next decades.
A possible indirect way of doing that is by recording the worm’s behavior:
record the behavior under many conditions
design an ANN that has the same architecture as the real worm
train many instances of the ANN on a half of the recordings
select an instance that shows the right behavior on the withheld half of the recordings
if the records are long and diverse enough, and if the ANN is realistic enough, the selected instance will have the weights that are functionally equivalent to the weights of the real worm
The same approach could be used to emulate the brain of a specific human. Although the required compute in this case might be too large to become practical in the next decades.