Observed arrival · 2026-10-14
A nematode connectome, loose on Wikipedia
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The page presents an interactive experiment that routes Wikipedia pages through a model of the C. elegans nervous system, treating links as food and article text as scent.
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- Readers curious about connectomes and interactive web experiments
- Worth noticing
- The page says its danger pathway is roughly eight times stronger than its appetite pathway, making the simulated worm unusually cautious.
Field notes
The page describes a pipeline in which an embedded scent lexicon scores Wikipedia article text, then sends the result through named sensory neurons and a connectome to influence movement. It identifies the wiring dataset as the C. elegans hermaphrodite connectome from White et al. 1986, digitized by OpenWorm. The site says failed live requests fall back to a cached crawl; that behavior is presented as a site claim, not independently verified here.
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