molaveResearchers simulate an entire fly brain on a laptop. Is a human brain next? - Berkeley News (2024)
I said it in another thread and I’ll say it in this one.
Holy. Shit. The terror. The unknowable terror. Is digital-fly conscious? Have we any way of knowing?
I feel like this will rapidly become a question of definitions. What is consciousness? Is a real fly conscious?
questions that have been asked for thousands of years, actually. heck “cogito ergo sum” and all of that.