George BandarianAI Innovator & Venture Leader Driving Future Technologies

What If You Could Create a Digital Copy of Yourself - Cell by Cell?

Name: What If You Could Create a Digital Copy of Yourself - Cell by Cell?
Uploaded: 2026-07-08T17:29:16+00:00
Duration: 1 min
Channel: George Bandarian
Description: In this monologue, the speaker argues that biological organisms operate via biochemistry, and that if we could build computational cells that replicate…

8 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that biological organisms operate via biochemistry, and that if we could build computational cells that replicate the exact behavior of each biological cell, we could create a one‑to‑one digital twin of a person. The speaker cites a completed whole‑brain simulation of a fruit fly, describing how the simulated fly can walk, locate food, navigate obstacles, groom, and avoid looming threats without any pre‑programmed animation—its behavior emerges from simulated neurons and cellular biochemistry. The speaker emphasizes that the simulation does not infer the fly’s intentions; it simply reproduces the interactions of cells, leading to motor output and sensory perception. The broader claim is that extending this approach could eventually produce a digital copy of a human that thinks, feels, and acts like the original.

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Right now we all run on biochemistry, like biochemical cells. If we can create a computational cell that acts exactly like every one of your cells in your body and do a one-to-one digital twin of you, that being, that digital person, will act and feel and think maybe like you. We've already done it for a fruit fly, and if I had a video I could show you the fly walking around and finding food and Navigating an environment, obstacles, grooming, and avoiding, like, looming threats. So this is a scanned fly. This is not like an animation with AI, like, running it. This is— we have no idea what the fruit fly is intending to do. We're just simulating neurons and cells, right? And what we are is, you know, a bunch of cells that are interacting, right? And then we at some point have motor movement, and, you know, thoughts turn around in our heads. We see light from the environment. We hear sounds.