The Open Worm Project, a Connectome of a Round Worm

If we could scan our brain in great enough detail, we could then upload it into a computer simulation that would reconstruct your personality and consciousness. There are many researchers who think it'll never be possible. One guessed it would take ten years to scan a single brain - even if you had a million electron microscopes working at the same time. For now, if we were to succeed, the scan produced would be called a connectome. Wells too bad, we won't likely see one. Well, actually, scientists have successfully made a connectom of a round worm. Round worms are much simpler than humans. They only have 302 neurons in their brain, compared to our millions.

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