Hemispherectomy?

[I_am_not_mafia]

"Super computer", yea, those are man made so? What does that have to do with all biological life?

You claimed that cockroaches experience fear similar to humans. Brain is a computer according to most atheists. You can emulate any computer on any other computer assuming it has enough computational power. Brain of cockroach is tiny so it should not be hard to emulate small part of its tiny brain responcible for feeling of fear on a modern supercomputer.

A super computer has different capabilities than a brain. They can perform sequential operations faster. A brain has far greater connectivity. It is inefficient and difficult for one to simulate or compete with another at their respective tasks. A super computer could well be at the stage now where it could simulate the full computational processing power of a cockroach, but the problem is that you can't fit a supercomputer into the body of a cockroach so it wouldn't be able to be embodied, which is critically important to being intelligent (one reason why consciousness is not external). And you couldn't send and receive signals from a robotic cockroach to and from a supercomputer without latency (another reason why consciousness is not external to the brain). But you could simulate an environment for the artificial cockroach.

But to answer your question about fear in a cockroach simulated on a computer. You'd first need to define emotions so you can recognise it when you see it (hence my questions at the beginning of the thread). That way you would know what you are working towards. But also why they would exist. Emotions perform many different functions but in practice they implement large scale modulation of groups of neurons. This effect can last for a lot longer than simple synaptic connections between neurons. Like from seconds to days. They do this by having neuromodulators that bind to receptors on the neuron's body. You can simulate this on a computer. Indeed, I have myself.

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Yes.

I'd like to see source code

I can describe it if you want.

I'm not going to show you my own code.