>>827121>but from my understanding we are not simulating a "brain" at all. We still hardly even know how the brain works. We have a crude mapping of the neurons and connections in a fly's brain and we just plug a neural network into it (something we've had for many years) and train it to do tasks.This is by no means the limit of what we understand of the brain, but yeah it's just a connectome. No horomones or anything yet. From what I understand this takes slicing a fly brain layer by later on a tiny deli slicer. I assume getting more of the nuances of the brain required a more complex scanner.
>It makes me think that human beings are actually just sadistic freaks who are salivating at the chance to actually torture lesser beings more than anything else.That's far too cathartic of a conclusion. To jump right to it being a humans thing rather than attempting to narrow it to a cultural phenomena makes me think you to some degree feel this yourself, and want to feel normal about it by attributing it to your humanity.