Fly Experiment: a fly run by a real connectome

Why it surfaced

Sugar stimulates gustatory receptors and can push motor neuron MN9 past the 60 Hz threshold needed for the proboscis to extend; broccoli and homework serve as bitter controls. The page is unusually candid about its limits: locomotion is scripted, while only the feeding decision comes from the neural simulation.

An interactive browser experiment uses an 873-neuron cut of the FlyWire fruit-fly connectome to decide whether a simulated fly eats.