SPECIMEN / D. MELANOGASTER
ANATOMICAL SYSTEM ↔ COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM
ANATOMICAL SYSTEM ↔ COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM
CONNECTOME SIGNAL / LIVE
NEURAL TOPOLOGY / 139K+ NODES
NEURAL TOPOLOGY / 139K+ NODES
Drosophil·AI
Biological hardware / alien problems
Biological hardware / alien problems
A connectome is a map of neurons and the synapses between them. Simulation gives that static wiring dynamics; interfaces let an outside world stimulate it and read what comes back.
An image, movement, signal, game state or entirely artificial sense becomes input.
The outside information is translated into patterns the simulated nervous system can receive.
Activity travels through evolution's actual network topology rather than a network we designed.
Selected neural activity is decoded into movement, choice, control—or simply measured.
Drosophila has been one of biology's great model organisms for more than a century. Whole-brain connectomics gives us a new kind of object to experiment with: an evolution-designed neural architecture whose circuitry can be stimulated, perturbed, compared and connected to unfamiliar environments.
Not a digital fly. Not a tiny consciousness in a laptop. A computational model grounded in biological wiring—and a laboratory for asking what that wiring can do.
THE FIRST EXPERIMENT IS DELIBERATELY OPEN. THE LAB IS BEING BUILT BEFORE THE QUESTION IS LOCKED.