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

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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The model predicted that specific neurons would fire to extend the fly’s proboscis and initiate eating — a result he and his colleagues showed is true in real adult flies.

Wow the program did what is was programmed to do?!?!? WOWOWOWO!! \s

That is impressive.

Not really.

How does this deal with learning?

Not at all.

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