Observed arrival · 2026-09-12
Hey Fly, a Connectome You Can Talk To
An interactive fruit fly whose simulated taste circuit gets hungry, sleeps, reacts to prompts, and sometimes ignores you.
Field notes
The simulation exposes hunger, satiety, meal count, and a rolling 200 ms view of activity across 410 taste-reflex neurons. Visitors can apply named stimuli, while the page says the language model handles first-person phrasing and the circuit supplies the measured response. Its stated eating rule is concrete: MN9 must pass 30 Hz to push the proboscis beyond the white mark. The page also distinguishes the fly from its associated token, stating that trading or holding does not affect it.
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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
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