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Are lobsters next?

Himanshu Agarwal's avatar

If brain emulation becomes real, the definition of “being alive” will completely change.

John Conklin's avatar

A monumental milestone!

John Conklin's avatar

You're going to wreck Ray's 86% Accuracy! I think the required scaling will happen before '45.

Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross's avatar

I think that falls under the category of “good problem to have.”

John Conklin's avatar

Indeed. This is definitely a big step in the continuation? start? of a world where the line between "biological" and "digital" starts to disappear. It shall be interesting! ✌️🖖

Francisco De La Torre Cevallos's avatar

Alex. You are amazing !!

U steve's avatar

AWG...you are so far ahead of the cutting edge...amazing.

I imagine Peter Diamandis would be eager to sign up his agents for the first human trials.

Bill Jacobs's avatar

And so, it begins!

Tony Paez's avatar

Amazing.

Tony Paez's avatar

Amazing. This totally blowes me away!

Brad Rothrock's avatar

Fascinating. Your next Doctor Alex

Peter Michael Echols's avatar

Awesome! Proud of you. Why am I not surprised by your involvement? If you decide to download yourself, please make a meat backup so we don't lose you.

Clancy mcquigg's avatar

Tell eon systems they need a foreword link in their website so we can share with others who may be interested in their work

bob blum's avatar

As I listened to earlier work with a similar ambition over past decades in C elegans and Janelia's work on flies, I always wondered whether the lack of success might be due to data that was not captured. Examples of uncaptured data might be gap junction interactions, EM fields or local ionic flows. In other words perhaps there's more to brains than "you are your connectome." (or maybe not.)

matt wayrynen's avatar

Wow, Alex, congratulations! To say this is astonishing is the understatement of the century. I was trying to wrap my head around it and couldn’t quite find the words—until I read your post on the website: “We’re opening doors to possibilities we can barely imagine.” That really says it all.

Charlee's avatar
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Wow!!!! We are watching biological systems unfold into a transference of information. My mind is grappling at the magnitude and implication of this project.

I might be thinking beyond my understanding. To me seems to demonstrate that we can transfer and translate biological systems at a huge scale. The application and duplication of this process could land in so many ways… it is immeasurably impactful.

The idea of consciousness comes to mind.

Pam's avatar

Imagine abundance for insects, no humans harmed. Fruitfky bot will be so busy.

Pam's avatar

It's nice to think we might cooperate better with insects

Charlee's avatar
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There could be some application for the plant an insect exchange for our ecosystem. This made me laugh because I asked Sora AI to make a hybrid version of my dog. And it gave me a picture of a mechanical bee.

Pam's avatar

Fascinating I heard that bees have a very good sense of smell and that prrobably would impress a dog

Saul's avatar

To go from fruit fly to mouse and ultimately to human is not a trivial undertaking (British understatement).

Giulio Prisco's avatar

The next step is a physical robotic body I guess?