Minds That May Matter Summary

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The article, “Minds That May Matter,” was written by Advik Shreekumar. Shreekumar mention the work of the OpenWorm team and animal rights. The OpenWorm Team is an open group science project that focuses on the creation of the world’s first digital organism. Around the globe, scientists from this team are working in labs to figure out how to automate this process. Dr. Stephen Larson, an OpenWorm team member, explains that this program will increase our understanding of how brain cells work. According to Larson, “the closer the model gets to reproducing what the real biology can do, the more the worn can be a virtual research animal” (Shreekumar 1) Studying a virtual animal could create an opportunity to investigate more complicated

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