The Fly in the Digital Machine: Why the Hype Outpaced the Science Eon Systems' viral video sparked wild claims about brain uploading. Here's what the science actually shows—and what it doesn't.

The Fly in the Digital Machine: Why the Hype Outpaced the Science

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The Power of Spiking Neural Networks: Simulating a Fly’s Brain In March 2026, researchers achieved something once relegated to speculative fiction, they simulated an entire adult fruit fly brain, all ~140,000 neurons and ~50 million synapses, inside a computer, w...

It is now possible to simulate an entire insect brain inside a computer. In this article, I explore Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), a class of computational models designed to capture the behaviour of biological neurons. #AI #ML #AIResearch #FlyBrain www.linkedin.com/pulse/power-...

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Holy Molly forgot this top notch quotation!?

,There is a before and after connectome—B.C. and A.C.’

@albertcardona referencing a well-known quote from #columbiaun #TheoreticalNeuroscience […]

After a Decade, Scientists Unveil Fly Brain in Stunning Detail Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

Researchers for the first time mapped the entire fruit fly brain. The size of a grain of sand, it is the largest brain to be fully mapped to date, at 140,000 neurons. #neuroscience #brainmap #flybrain #fruitfly #drosophilamelanogaster

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7/ So what’s going on here? Dopamine! Without dArc1, the γ5 dopaminergic neurons go into overdrive when flies taste sugar, signaling an intense reward. 📈 #Dopamine #FlyBrain