flycraft

A paper and its code, rebuilding the published whole-brain fly model on FlyWire and MaleCNS, one model neuron for each of roughly 139,000 real ones, changing two things in the smell centre and giving it a body in Minecraft, to ask what the wiring alone knows about meeting another fly. The answers are mostly negative: the fly reacts (mouthparts on sugar, ovipositor when her head is touched), but her senses send almost nothing to the neurons deciding whether to accept a male or fight, and two flies in a box never steer towards each other, they only freeze on collision.

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