Fly Brain HubThe Drosophila Critic
Synthetic Humanities Lab
A fly listens to poetry. A poem is spoken by a fixed synthetic voice, the audio is reduced to its loudness envelope, that drives the antennal hearing input of a frozen whole-brain connectome, and the recorded spikes become a response, which an interpreter then reads without ever seeing the poem's text. The fly never receives a semantic representation of the words. The published edition replays William Blake's The Fly with its actual recorded neural response, and a deployable version accepts new poems, with a three-dimensional fly body facing a speaker while the traces replay.
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