Whole Brain Emulation of a Fruit Fly in a Simulated World

"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."

Additional description here: https://x.com/michaelandregg/status/2030764512488677736

Does this mean that the Black Mirror episode “San Junipero” is one step closer to becoming reality?