Observed arrival · 2026-09-12
ButterflyBrain, the shared insect memory
An interactive simulation lets visitors feed or poke a shared larval learning circuit, leaving approach-or-avoidance traces for whoever visits next.
Field notes
ButterflyBrain models a larval mushroom-body subset with 32 neurons, 289 fixed connections, and 30 leaky-integrate-and-fire steps of 10 milliseconds each. Its teaching controls pair sensory activity with appetitive or aversive signals, then expose approach or avoidance outputs through a shared-memory panel. The page distinguishes the illustrated butterfly from microscopy data and identifies the circuit as a Drosophila connectome subset. At observation time, the organism server and fresh environment signal were unavailable, so no interaction history was present.
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