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Navigating the fastest path to human emulation to safeguard a flourishing future.

[hattie @oh_that_hat]

There's a fruit fly walking around right now that was never born.

@eonsys just released a video where they took a real fly's connectome — the wiring diagram of its brain — and simulated it. Dropped it into a virtual body. It started walking. Grooming. Feeding. Doing what flies do.

Nobody taught it to walk. No training data, no gradient descent toward fly-like behavior. This is the opposite of how AI works. They rebuilt the mind from the inside, neuron by neuron, and behavior just... emerged. It's the first time a biological organism has been recreated not by modeling what it does, but by modeling what it is.

A human brain is 6 OOM more neurons. That's a scaling problem, something we've gotten very good at solving. So what happens when we have a working copy of the human mind?

[Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg]

https://t.co/N2AwpI9f8m

[Michael Andregg @michaelandregg]

We've uploaded a fruit fly. We took the @FlyWireNews connectome of the fruit fly brain, applied a simple neuron model (@Philip_Shiu Nature 2024) and used it to control a MuJoCo physics-simulated body, closing the loop from neural activation to action.

A few things I want to say about what this means and where we're going at @eonsys. 🧵

[Michael Andregg @michaelandregg]

AI alignment converges to uploading - the only perfectly aligned agent is ultimately an emulation of you.

[Foresight Institute @foresightinst]

Join us for Vision Weekend USA, our annual flagship event bringing together leading researchers, entrepreneurs, and funders at the forefront of science and technology!

This year’s theme – “AI for X” – explores how AI can accelerate breakthroughs in longevity biotech, neurotech, and other transformative fields.

📍 Dec 5–7 | Bay Area

Confirmed speakers include:
• Ed Boyden (Boyden Lab) @eboyden3
• Laura Deming (Until) @LauraDeming
• Andrew Trask (OpenMined) @iamtrask
• Viren Jain (Google) @stardazed0
• Liv Boeree (Win-Win Podcast) @Liv_Boeree
• Chiara Marletto (University of Oxford)
• Alan Mardinly (Science) @mardinly
• Cate Hall (Astera Institute) @catehall
• Adam Brown (Google DeepMind & Stanford University)
• Greg Wayne (Google DeepMind)
• Joe Betts-LaCroix (Retro) @bettslacroix

Get tickets: https://t.co/VnNeCh49QX

[Tiny Blue Dot Foundation @tbd_foundation]

📣 New Funding Alert: We've opened our 4th Request for Proposals studying Science of Perception Box!✨

We're awarding up to 10 grants (up to $900K each) to study how beliefs & experiences shape perception.

LOIs due Oct 7.

Read more and apply here 👉
https://t.co/4fM5xQrfso

[eon @eonsys]

AlterEgo previews tech to command AI & computers via "silent speech" - capturing signals from cranial nerves and motor units, with a wearable around the ear + bone conduction feedback.

Non-invasive, no EEG or brain electrode recordings.

They plan a public reveal at Axios AI+ Summit (mid-Sept).

See also: https://t.co/b54qSdkD1g

[eon @eonsys]

That wraps up this week’s updates in brain tech. We’ve unpacked these transformative developments and explored how they might shape humanity's road toward whole brain emulation.

Follow @eonsys for weekly updates, and share if you think others should see it too.

[eon @eonsys]

🧵Another incredible week for the future of humanity and brain emulation! This week we've witnessed astonishing innovations from the International Brain Lab, Trinity College and more.

[eon @eonsys]

Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, JUPITER, was inaugurated on Sep 5 at Forschungszentrum Jülich. This brings exascale-class compute online in the EU for workloads including brain modeling, connectomics, and large scale simulation.

See also: https://t.co/pFQuR1bWvC

[allen institute @AllenInstitute]

Undergraduate educators, introduce your students to the wealth of information inside the Allen Brain Cell Atlas with our new student-friendly guide! https://t.co/WkXxfXhL6o

[allen institute @AllenInstitute]

What parts of the brain are responsible for conscious experience?

Neuroscientist and consciousness researcher Christof Koch spoke with @deepakchopra about his journey to neuroscience, his work with Francis Crick, and thoughts on artificial intelligence.
https://t.co/l7zj8qM9w5

[allen institute @AllenInstitute]

A tiny piece of brain tissue has made neuroscience history.

We recently shared the most complete functional map of a mammalian brain to date...and we're just getting started.

[eon @eonsys]

That wraps up this week’s updates in brain tech. We’ve unpacked these transformative developments and explored how they might shape humanity's road toward whole brain emulation.

Follow @eonsys for weekly updates, and share if you think others should see it too.

[eon @eonsys]

🧵Another incredible week for the future of humanity and brain emulation! This week we've witnessed astonishing innovations from OpenAI, MIT and more.

[eon @eonsys]

@NIH BRAIN MCWG + Neuroethics WG public meeting: Ongoing federal discussions on data sharing, standards, and ethics help align governance with accelerating BCI/WBE research.

See also: https://t.co/tzJGXjXD29