Comments on: Shrimp on a Treadmill Helps Scientists Study Climate Change Effects http://earthfirst.com/shrimp-on-a-treadmill-helps-scientists-study-climate-change-effects/ A Sharp Eye -- With a Green Edge Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:28:31 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Roy http://earthfirst.com/shrimp-on-a-treadmill-helps-scientists-study-climate-change-effects/comment-page-1/#comment-5499 Roy Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:34:49 +0000 http://earthfirst.com/?p=2837#comment-5499 I'm not entirely sure their neural ganglia even count as brains. They basically operate like little robots with programmed input and reactions. Hence the endless treadmill running. I guess they're more sophisticated than a flatworm. Flatworm nervous systems are simple enough to be completely simulated by clever computer scientists. But those projects never produced any useful science while I was reading about them... at least nothing as immediately useful as these clever environmental researchers. I’m not entirely sure their neural ganglia even count as brains. They basically operate like little robots with programmed input and reactions. Hence the endless treadmill running.

I guess they’re more sophisticated than a flatworm. Flatworm nervous systems are simple enough to be completely simulated by clever computer scientists.

But those projects never produced any useful science while I was reading about them… at least nothing as immediately useful as these clever environmental researchers.

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