Fly Brain Connectome Plays Beat Saber, Exposing Holes in Our Intuitions About Sentience
floguo · x · 2026-09-11
- A quoted post shows a simulated fly brain connectome playing Beat Saber, a landmark demo for connectome emulation research.
- tszzl calls it "amazing art": part of the point is that we don't know when to feel uncomfortable — what if the connectome were more realistic, or a rabbit's? Our intuitions about sentience and consciousness are riddled with holes.
- Sparks debate over when emulated brains deserve moral consideration.
Related event: Fruit Fly Connectome Experiments Raise Consciousness Ethics Concerns(3 posts)→
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