Sigh.

So it turns out we've mapped the neural connectome of Drosophila *and simulated it in silico*.

https://flywire.ai/

Pop-sci explainer here:

https://www.rathbiotaclan.com/whole-brain-emulation-achieved-scientists-run-a-fruit-fly-brain-in-simulation/

Key quote: "The step from a complete connectome to a working computational brain model is not trivial." And there's an even more important finding in this screenshot (alt text via OCR):

"The wiring is the computation".

/1

@cstross

Someone commented that now we've uploaded a fly brain it can eat virtual shit long after the rest of us are a distant memory.