Scholars Question Fruit Fly Whole-Brain Simulation: Just a Name and Visuals, No Substance
kfountou · x · 2026-09-12
Netizen kfountou sharply criticized the recently high-profile fruit fly brain simulation work, arguing its only interesting aspects are the name and the visualizations, with no real substance — "All you've done is train a large enough spiking neural network that it happens to be good enough to simulate an actual computer." This is a representative opposing view on the claimed whole-fruit-fly nervous system emulation.
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