The brain of a fruit fly has been completely copied into a computer.
Listen carefully.
This is not an AI model that imitates a fruit fly.
This is a real, neuron-level digital copy.
Scientists used an electron microscope to scan the brain of the fruit fly.
One neuron at a time.
One synapse at a time.
All digitized.
Then, they placed this "digital brain" into a simulated body.
Just like a game character.
And the result?
This virtual fruit fly started walking, cleaning itself, and searching for food on its own.
No one taught it.
All behaviors are etched in the circuits of its brain.
For decades, tech elites have been saying that intelligence needs to be "trained" through massive amounts of data.
Now it seems that intelligence might be able to be directly "transferred."
If a fruit fly's brain can be copied...
What will be next?
Who decides which consciousness can be digitized and which cannot?
A brand new ethical battleground has already opened.