Researchers simulate an entire fly brain on a laptop. Is a human brain next? - Berkeley News (2024) (news.berkeley.edu)

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[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 days ago

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?

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

We've already been at this point, with these questions.

https://openworm.org/ you can run your own simulated worm buddy! With complete nervous system/connectome and muscle cells

[-] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

Warning: You can't download the whole virtual worm, we're not quite there yet! :)

You lied to me.

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, I believe so far they have all of the neurons and muscle cells and have modelled the motor behavior, so the worm will wriggle and crawl around. I don't think they have yet simulated other biological processes. But the full "brain" is implemented and running.

There's also this which is a complete worm "brain" but even more simple motor behavior, that runs in your browser. https://heyseth.github.io/worm-sim/