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Researchers open-source fruit fly brain map; developers build wild AI projects with it
Developer raises philosophical questions about fly brain consciousness
1 Sep 16 · 11d ago · 1 article · 1 post · 2 sources · development 1 of 2
Alex Wormuth, a Coinbase software engineer behind StonkFly, reflects on the connectome project as philosophically fascinating, noting it raises ethical questions about the nature of consciousness in brain replications.
“It sparks questions about ethics of this and whether there is any consciousness [in the replication of fly's brain].”
Alex WormuthGoogle and academic institutions Connectome developersWill Knight WIRED writerAlex Wormuth Coinbase software engineerLyra Bubbles X user / developer
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