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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.
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
You lied to me.
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/