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Google mapped the brain and nervous system of a fruit fly, and modders forced it to play Doom (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

does that mean you can place a fruit fly in a mech and tell it to shoot people?

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 1 month ago

Somehow we've invented brain uploading but we forgotten to invent the mech

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[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

Yes, but in fairness you could do that before.

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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes. Yes we could, but we didn't know that we could, atleast not efficiently. Now we know.

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