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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?
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/
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.