{"id":13944,"date":"2026-03-17T21:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13944"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:23:11","slug":"ghost-in-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13944","title":{"rendered":"Ghost in the Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I admit I find this&#8230; fascinating but more than a bit unsettling.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the brain of a fly, fully mapped, and then placed in a simulation in charge of a virtual fly body.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.75em;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e21OUXPlnhk?si=KqYSSGV0wMY4abgh\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Yes. That&#8217;s precisely what these folks claim to have been able to do.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, it&#8217;s just a fly. Not a mouse, not a cat, not a human. But what is possible in principle with the brain of a fly is certainly possible in principle with larger brains, too.<\/p>\n<p>What it means, however&#8230; They speak of ghosts in the machine and the Matrix, but I admit I am left wondering if genie in a bottle may be a more appropriate metaphor.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13944' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit I find this&#8230; fascinating but more than a bit unsettling. Imagine the brain of a fly, fully mapped, and then placed in a simulation in charge of a virtual fly body. Yes. That&#8217;s precisely what these folks claim to have been able to do. Granted, it&#8217;s just a fly. Not a mouse, not <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13944' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybernetics","category-58-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13947,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13944\/revisions\/13947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}