Richard Feynman’s Last Board
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The document discusses the goals and challenges of the OpenWorm project, which aims to create a complete multi-scale simulation of the roundworm C. elegans. The simulation would model the worm at various levels, from individual cells and neurons to its whole body and environment. The goals are to better understand the worm and extract general design principles from biological systems that could be applied to modeling the human body. Key challenges include integrating models of the worm's genome, cells, tissues, nervous system, behavior and environment across multiple scales of size and time.
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