Scientists simulated a fly brain and gave it a virtual bodyand now we're asking the question yoga's been asking for millennia.
From Researchers Upload Fly's Brain to Matrix, Let It Control Virtual Body on futurism.com
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YOGA • PHILOSOPHY • LIFE
March 26, 2026
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✦ PHILOSOPHY ✦
Mecha Fly
Scientists simulated a fly brain and gave it a virtual body—and now we're asking the question yoga's been asking for millennia.
🕉️ KEY CONCEPTS
Prana
Life force or vital energy that animates the body
Samskaras
Mental impressions and patterns formed by past experiences
Atman
The true self or soul, the witness consciousness beyond the mind
Embodiment
The practice of inhabiting and experiencing the physical body fully
"The ghost is no longer in the machine. The machine is becoming the ghost."
— Alex Weissner-Gross, Eon Systems
When we copy a brain neuron by neuron, will we copy consciousness—or discover it was never in the brain to begin with?
— MJH
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Original Article: "Researchers Upload Fly's Brain to Matrix, Let It Control Virtual Body" by Victor Tangermann, Futurism
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