Hacker News Reader

Ah I see... so it sounds like I misunderstood. You're calling for a higher-fidelity physical model, not something metaphysical :)

I still think it's impressive if we can get a decent-fidelity model of C. elegans behavior at the project's current level of abstraction.

I wonder how much behavioral difference we'd see from a lower level of simulation? After all, you can do a lot with a "RAM and CPU" level simulation of a computer...

But.. Do you need electrons and gamma ray model to simulate fully your old Amiga games on PC?

I think the example is not great. The problem is not that we could be doing better, but rather that without a more granular view, the model will simply not work.

More like trying to model the pixels on a screen without accessing the underlying program that's making decisions on what to show.

And sometimes it's enough to simulate on the level of api's to get same results