Re: Things I never thought would appear

Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

Keith F. Lynch wrote:

I understand there is a complete brain map of a fruit fly.  I
haven't heard whether they've emulated it in software and gotten
fly-like behavior out of it.

They have.  One of the series of papers published in Nature says
that they presented the model with simulated sugar and got the fly
to stick out its simulated tongue.

Cool!  We're only a few short steps away from being able to present
the model of a Usenet poster's brain with a simulated Usenet post and
get a post in a reply.
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