Simulation Theory Just Got Real

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Scientists Bypass AI Training by Using 100 Million Years of Evolution

I’ve been following this story about scientists mapping a fruit fly’s brain, and it’s like watching a sci-fi movie come to life. Back in late 2024, a group called the FlyWire Consortium mapped out every single connection in a fly’s head, 140,000 neurons and 50 million synapses.

FlyWire Consortium Official Site: FlyWire

They didn't just make a map... they took that data and plugged it into a virtual, 3D fly body. And the thing just started walking around. It wasn't trained by an AI to do that, and they didn't use any special programming to teach it. It was just a 1:1 copy of nature’s own wiring running in a computer simulation. It worked because millions of years of evolution already figured out how to be a fly.

It’s incredible work, but it also feels like we’re starting to live in The Matrix. If you can put a fly’s mind into a computer and it acts 91% like the real thing, it makes you wonder about us. Some scientists, like Nick Bostrom at Oxford, actually think there’s a good chance we’re already living in a simulation. He argues that if any future society ever gets smart enough to run these kinds of tests, they’d probably run millions of them. If that’s the case, the odds of us being the originals are pretty slim. We might just be code in someone else’s program.

Nick Bostrom’s Simulation Argument: www.simulation-argument.com/
Nature Journal (The Connectome Paper): www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07558-y

It seems, they’re already talking about mice, and eventually, humans. A human brain has 86 billion neurons, so we aren't there yet, but the path is clear. On one hand, this could be a miracle for medicine. We could simulate a brain disease like Alzheimer’s and test a cure in a computer before a person ever touches a pill.

On the flip side, it’s a little spooky. We’ve all seen the movies where the digital copy goes rogue or the system breaks down. But if we are already living in a simulation, what happens if the person running our world decides to hit the reset key?

It actually makes you wonder if that’s the real secret behind Multiverse Theory. Maybe those alternate dimensions aren't actually far-off places in space, but just a bunch of different save files running on the same massive server. In one file, you’re reading this post... in another, the simulation was patched and I never made this post. 

Related Video: Matthew Berman: Does This Fly Prove We're In a Simulation?

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On the flip side, it’s a little spooky. We’ve all seen the movies where the digital copy goes rogue or the system breaks down. But if we are already living in a simulation, what happens if the person running our world decides to hit the reset key?

Scientific model of our Universe , kind of looks like a Black Hole , no ?


Perhaps there isn't anyone to push a reset , the question I ponder is are we inside a Black Hole or perhaps we are information being played across the surface like a record , maybe there's an Omniverse filled with incredibly massive Black Holes all containing their own Universe making up a Multiverse ?

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@ Imitator

It occurs to me that the neurons/synapses of the fly's brain and functioning is a 'frozen in time' scenario so it may not allow for split-second actions required for, let's say, protecting the fly from being squished by a fly swatter.

I may be off on the wrong tangent because I didn't yet read the study, but it just seems to me to be a problem with AI/LLM, that being it can only function within the parameters from which it has to draw upon.

So here's an explanation of it's reaction to stimuli:

"However, in March 2026, researchers at Eon Systems PBC combined the FlyWire connectome with a physics-simulated fly body (NeuroMechFly v2) to create the first embodied brain emulation.  This system enables the digital fly to:

Receive sensory inputs (e.g., taste, touch, vision) from a virtual environment.

Process these signals through the full connectome.

Generate motor commands that move the simulated body.

Close the loop: body movement changes sensory input, which feeds back into the brain.

This closed-loop system allows the simulated fly to navigate toward food, groom itself when dusty, and exhibit natural behaviors—proving it can react to stimuli in a biologically realistic way."

https://www.profolus.com/topics/scientis...-computer/

Notice it says closed-loop system within a virtual reality?

Can unknown reactions, not specified above, be generated without those stimuli being programmed into the virtual environment, such as escaping an approaching fly swatter?

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It occurs to me that the neurons/synapses of the fly's brain and functioning is a 'frozen in time' scenario so it may not allow for split-second actions required for, let's say, protecting the fly from being squished by a fly swatter.

Perhaps this experiment would allow repetative learning to create a fly brain that cannot be swatted, but one that evolves really quickly via resets to easily allow evasion. "Iterations". Not something the natural world could allow because a swatted fly cannot be brought back to life. Yet.

The real restriction in life is these meatbags many living things are confined to.

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It occurs to me that the neurons/synapses of the fly's brain and functioning is a 'frozen in time' scenario so it may not allow for split-second actions required for, let's say, protecting the fly from being squished by a fly swatter.

Perhaps this experiment would allow repetative learning to create a fly brain that cannot be swatted, but one that evolves really quickly via resets to easily allow evasion. "Iterations". Not something the natural world could allow because a swatted fly cannot be brought back to life. Yet.

The real restriction in life is these meatbags many living things are confined to.

I was under the impression from my previous Orkin Pest Control training that a fly zips away from a fly swatter or any other movement because the air around its tiny hairs on its surface detects the changes, and it's an involuntary muscle response. IIRC

Sort of like human hair on the back of thier neck triggers an alert response

Flies do have sensory hairs (called mechanosensory bristles or setae) covering their bodies that detect subtle changes in air pressure and currents caused by approaching objects, like a swatter or your hand. This detection triggers a rapid, involuntary escape response, allowing them to reposition their legs and take off in the opposite direction within milliseconds—often before the threat arrives. Their antennae also contribute to sensing these air movements, complementing the hairs. While vision plays a significant role in their evasion (thanks to compound eyes that process motion quickly), the air-sensing mechanism is a key non-visual cue that gives them that split-second edge. 

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On the flip side, it’s a little spooky. We’ve all seen the movies where the digital copy goes rogue or the system breaks down. But if we are already living in a simulation, what happens if the person running our world decides to hit the reset key?

Scientific model of our Universe , kind of looks like a Black Hole , no ?


Perhaps there isn't anyone to push a reset , the question I ponder is are we inside a Black Hole or perhaps we are information being played across the surface like a record , maybe there's an Omniverse filled with incredibly massive Black Holes all containing their own Universe making up a Multiverse ?

This is a new theory, that our universe is inside a super massive black hole. That the event horizon of the universe is from this black hole. 

I like this idea because it supports my theory the we are living in Hell, actually the bottomless pit. We are the fallen angels that rebelled against God and we have been imprisoned for eternity inside a black hole universe.

This would explain time anomalies, even alternate realities, because our universe is flattened and wound into a spiral of layers pressed against itself. Deja vu, prophecies, and premonitions are time loops caused by ripples and vortexes on the surface of our flattened universe.