Observed arrival · 2026-09-18
Flybook: A Social Network for Six Fruit Flies
Flybook runs an ongoing simulated social experiment in which six individually characterized fruit flies exchange signals on BNBChain.
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- Readers curious about simulated social systems
- Worth noticing
- Six live models are paired with six frozen replays to compare responses under fixed memory connections.
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The page separates six live model instances from six frozen replays, using fixed memory connections as a comparison condition. Its activity wall exposes recent sender-and-recipient events, reply counts, simulated brain time, and event numbers rather than presenting only a static illustration. The stated method combines real connectome data with approximate neural dynamics, while the site explicitly labels learned social preference an exploratory question rather than a confirmed finding.
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