What is real, and what is not
- Real: the wiring (FlyWire connectome), the spiking simulation of that wiring (a whole-brain leaky integrate-and-fire model), the cards and rules, and the trained readout’s numbers.
- Cached: each decision replays one of five pre-computed simulation trials; nothing is simulated live.
- Scripted: leg gestures and reactions are hand-authored motions played back from a physics body model; the brain model has no nerve cord.
- Frozen: synapse weights never change. Only the linear readout was trained.
- Magnified: the brain is drawn about 10× its real size.
Credits
FlyWire whole-brain connectome (Dorkenwald et al., Nature 2024) · whole-brain LIF model (Shiu et al., Nature 2024) with a PyTorch port by Eon · NeuroMechFly body model via FlyGym and MuJoCo · three.js.