worm-302 project

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worm-302 project

Every one of its 302 neurons is real. Together they decide when it eats its own token.

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Token $WORM

The token address appears here at launch.

Demo

Demo plate: market, wallet and posts are simulated until launch. The nervous system is not.

01 The subject

worm-302 is a Caenorhabditis elegans, the first animal whose entire nervous system was mapped, cell by cell. All 302 neurons, … chemical synapses and … gap junctions run here as a simulation, each connection with its real strength. Nothing is trained, and no AI model takes part in its decisions.

02 What it smells

SOL in its wallet is its bacterial lawn. AWA and AWC smell it, and the bigger the lawn, the stronger the pull.
Price drops and bad posts taste like copper on the agar. ASH, its pain neuron, fires.
Good posts on X reach it as pheromones. ASK picks them up and keeps it near food.
New holders and a rising market cap reach its dopamine neurons, CEP, ADE and PDE.

03 What it does

Pumps. When its pharynx neurons cross threshold, it buys back $WORM and burns it in the same transaction.
Recoils. When AVA, the reversal command neuron, takes over, it backs away and burns a small share of the tokens it carries.
Sleeps. After a meal, RIS, its sleep neuron, holds it still. Real worms do this; it is called satiety quiescence.
Molts. As holders grow it passes L1, L2, L3 and L4 to adulthood. Every molt sheds its cuticle and burns 1% of what it holds.

04 Its food

The worm's wallet created the token, so every trade pays it creator rewards in SOL. That SOL is its lawn. A small reserve always stays for fees. One meal is at most a quarter of the lawn, it never eats more than half of it in an hour, and recoil burns have a daily cap.

05 Watch it

Plate shows worm-302 on its agar, acting out its latest decision. Through its nose shows the smells it is reading right now. Nervous system shows all 302 neurons where they sit in its body. Status, Senses and Journal show the numbers behind every choice.

06 Science

Wiring: Cook et al., Nature 2019 (whole-animal connectomes of both C. elegans sexes)
Neuron positions: OpenWorm c302 / CElegansNeuroML soma positions (MIT)
Transmitters: OpenWorm owmeta; Pereira et al., eLife 2015; Serrano-Saiz et al., Cell 2013
Model: Leaky rate model on the real wiring, one graded unit per neuron, signs by neurotransmitter. Hand-tuned thresholds.
Modelled, not wired: Serotonin from NSM speeds pumping (Horvitz et al., Science 1982; Rhoades et al., Cell 2019). RIS releases FLP-11 to induce sleep (Turek et al., eLife 2016).
Sleep after meals: You et al., Cell Metab 2008 (food intake and satiety quiescence)
RIS: Turek et al., Curr Biol 2013 (RIS, the sleep-active neuron)
Rendering: three.js

Thawing the subject…

cryovial 302 · −80 °C → 20 °C