We’ve literally matrixed a fly already, and it’s wild to me that thats not the biggest news story / ethical discussion of the day.
Like, we took a fly, sliced it’s brain into million of slices, scanned each slice and rebuilt its exact neuron configuration in software, then, ran that software inside a video game engine wiring up the nervous system to the video game character’s inputs and outputs, and the fly started crawling around in the video game and drinking sugar water…
Thats fucking crazy, in virtually all senses of the word.
We’ve literally matrixed a fly already, and it’s wild to me that thats not the biggest news story / ethical discussion of the day.
Like, we took a fly, sliced it’s brain into million of slices, scanned each slice and rebuilt its exact neuron configuration in software, then, ran that software inside a video game engine wiring up the nervous system to the video game character’s inputs and outputs, and the fly started crawling around in the video game and drinking sugar water…
Thats fucking crazy, in virtually all senses of the word.
Now this is crazy. I was not aware we did this. I guess the next step would be to do a more advanced animal and go from there.