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Human brains are extremely complex and our knowledge has not advanced enough yet to be able to recreate them digitally. Yet, some researchers have been able to upload the brain of a smaller organism: a worm. The project is called OpenWorm (https://openworm.org/) and it could be our path to immortality. After mapping the worm’s complete nervous system, they simulated it digitally into a software that they attached to a Lego robot. The robot started moving and responding to its environment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_i1NKPzbjM) just like a worm would, without any human intervention. While the results of this project are absolutely astonishing, we should keep in mind that the worm’s nervous system is formed by only 302 cells. Human brains have about 86 billions of neurons, connected through trillions of synapsis.