Why wouldn’t it be conscious? Virtual or not, it’s designed to be a 1:1 recreation of the real thing. Better question: the connectome, was it captured with memories of past experiences? Like, was the fly, from its perspective, just recently munching on some fruit in a lab, next
the fly connectome everyone is playing with is probably not conscious, but all the experiments with it are kind of horrifying to me anyway, because I don't really see any of this stopping even as these capabilities scale up and conscious systems become more plausible.
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substance 6 · argument · rank 90 · A 1:1 recreation of a brain, virtual or not, could well be conscious.
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A connectome is only a map of synapses and leaves much out. It's not clear to me that there would be memories.