<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>It's always statements like it's "only a digital map of the brain that is not capable of sentience or conscious perception in any tangible biological sense."</div><div><br></div><div>I wish people could be more specific, as all biological behavior is simulatable / mappable.</div><div><br></div><div>The only difference is that a map (a word like 'red') isn't like anything—i.e., it lacks qualia like redness—which is all 'sentience' is.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 1:05 PM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet<br>
By Becky Ferreira · Sep 15, 2026<br>
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Quotes:<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">In addition to fueling a wave of giddy online experimentation, the<br>
connectome has sparked moral and ethical debates on Reddit and other<br>
forums. However, it’s worth emphasizing that MaleCNS v1.0 is only a<br>
digital map of the brain that is not capable of sentience or conscious<br>
perception in any tangible biological sense. The connectome recreates<br>
a fly’s neural wirings and overall structure, but it does not contain<br>
any of the complex biochemical makeup of the real organism upon which<br>
it is based.<br>
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