E801 - Digital Minds and Endless Miles

Can a Brain Live Without a Body? | Digital Immortality, Ancient Curses & the World’s Most Brutal Race

What if the first creature to outlive its own body… wasn’t human?

In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro dive into one of the most unsettling scientific breakthroughs in recent memory: researchers have successfully mapped and simulated the entire brain of a fruit fly—every neuron, every connection—and brought it to life inside a computer.

Is it thinking? Is it aware? Or is it something stranger—something in between?

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