{"id":238898,"date":"2026-06-13T10:11:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/scientists-put-a-fruit-flys-brain-in-a-computer-simulation-what-it-did-is-now-scaring-scientists"},"modified":"2026-06-13T10:11:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:11:54","slug":"scientists-put-a-fruit-flys-brain-in-a-computer-simulation-what-it-did-is-now-scaring-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/scientists-put-a-fruit-flys-brain-in-a-computer-simulation-what-it-did-is-now-scaring-scientists","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Put a Fruit Fly\u2019s Brain in a Computer Simulation\u2026 What It Did Is Now Scaring Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cvL5NlpYauk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have achieved an incredible breakthrough by recreating the brain of a fruit fly inside a computer simulation. By mapping around 140,000 neurons and millions of connections, they built a digital brain that can sense its environment, process information, and even control a virtual body. In the simulation, the digital fly was able to search for food, respond to stimuli, and show behaviors that were not directly programmed by scientists. This discovery shows how powerful neural connections are in generating behavior. It also raises fascinating questions about the nature of intelligence, consciousness, and whether complex brains\u2014including ours\u2014could one day be simulated in computers.<\/p>\n<p>sources<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eon.systems\/updates\/embodied-brain-emulation\">https:\/\/eon.systems\/updates\/embodied-brain-emulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Research Paper for more information.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/margin\">https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/margin<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>#Science.<br \/> #Neuroscience.<br \/> #ArtificialIntelligence.<br \/> #BrainSimulation.<br \/> #FruitFlyBrain.<br \/> #Connectome.<br \/> #FutureTech.<br \/> #ComputerSimulation.<br \/> #NeuralNetworks.<br \/> #ScienceDiscovery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have achieved an incredible breakthrough by recreating the brain of a fruit fly inside a computer simulation. By mapping around 140,000 neurons and millions of connections, they built a digital brain that can sense its environment, process information, and even control a virtual body. In the simulation, the digital fly was able to search [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1506,1965,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-food","category-mapping","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}