There's a fruit fly walking around right now that was never born. eon just released a video where they took a real fly's connectome — the wiring diagram of its brain — and simulated it. Dropped it into a virtual body. It started walking. Grooming. Feeding. Doing what flies... do. Nobody taught it to walk. No training data, no gradient descent toward fly-like behavior. This is the opposite of how AI works. They rebuilt the mind from the inside, neuron by neuron, and behavior just... emerged. It's the first time a biological organism has been recreated not by modeling what it does, but by modeling what it is. A human brain is 6 OOM more neurons. That's a scaling problem, something we've gotten very good at solving. So what happens when we have a working copy of the human mind?show more

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@eonsys This could be used to cure degenerative brain diseases and neurological disorders but it will probably be used for porn or capitalism. I'm so tired.

@eonsys I’m skeptical of this because it doesn’t seem like they also simulated all the nerves going to the limb muscles and other sensory nerves, etc.

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@eonsys Don't care if the post accurately describes the video (not watching) You science/bio/biotech people are influenced directly by Satan; pure evil Turn to Christ

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Highly unlikely and very misrepresented. Why? Because there is no feedback. Without sensory input, the legs aren't stopping on the ground by control from the "synthetic brain wiring". This is, frankly, garbage. Creatures aren't "brains and bodies" where we can emulate one but not the other. Creatures are whole systems. Yes, we have categorized the parts - that's science. Note that "science" and "scissors" and "schism" all come from the same root word - to separate.

@eonsys I’ve told you.

@eonsys turns out we already made that simulation years ago

Copying the network that evolution already learned is not the “opposite of AI.” In a connectome simulation, you still have neurons modeled mathematically, synaptic weights, dynamical systems, and control policies emerging from network structure. From a systems perspective, this is a neural network producing behavior. The difference is where the weights in the network come from; machine learning => learned from data, evolution / connectome => learned by evolution. Also, the simulation is extremely simplified. Many synapses are unknown, the neuron dynamics are approximated, body-environment feedback is simplified. This is just taking the already learned inference model that nature deployed, and sloppily copying the connections in software, then showing approximate fly behavior. And consider the psychology behind this. Humans are extremely good at seeing intentional behavior in noise. Fly behavior already looks random. Guaranteed a ton of over interpretation here.

@eonsys This seems probably overstated judging by the behavior of the author in the linked post. Would be cautious about taking this at face value.

Again this is one of the most incorrect and sensationalized takes of what actually happened. 1) They simulated reflexory neuromuscular structures in a simulated environment. A genuine first. 2) They are completely unable to simulate learning, memory, information processing, etc…

@eonsys "...what happens when we have a working copy of the human mind?" Several things, all adjacent to slavery?

@eonsys Nice, so we’re on track to trap a human mind in a literal matrix but that looks low poly. Are we the machines?

@eonsys That fly has no idea it is in a simulation. Do we know we are?

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@eonsys The propaganda begins.

@eonsys You're starting to figure out bugs aren't really alive, or perhaps most bugs aren't. Rather they're basically just organic computer living out programs that are programmed into them. Then you have anomalous ones like ants and how colonies function, that would be interesting.

@eonsys how would the fly inside the simulation even begin to understand where its actual awareness is, when its body is just an avatar, and not the literal home of its brain?

@eonsys sounds fake af. the brain is not the sole organ responsible for movements in a fly, there way more variables here. The animation is likely fake as well

@eonsys I hope they remembered to simulate some fruit for it.

The fly is "trained" by natural selection and its behaviors are encoded in the genomic data that determines how it develops therefore if you emulate the functions of a fully developed brain you are emulating a structure that is the accumulation of training over a vast number of generations, including those of its ancestor species. You'd be shocked by what percentage of your behavior is inherited from worms.

@eonsys What happens? This.

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@eonsys Bring this into a gaming environment for realistic NPCs and they’ll all just end up staring at their palms like there was a smartphone in it 🤔

@eonsys > So what happens when we have a working copy of the human mind? Well I know that movie!