FlyDesk

A Windows desktop colony in which every fly carries its own spiking brain built from the FlyWire v783 connectome, 138,639 neurons and 15 million synapses, integrated as leaky integrate-and-fire units with parameters from the published whole-brain model. The reactions come out of the circuit, not a timer: a cursor rushing at a fly lights up the looming cells LC4 and LPLC2 into the giant fibre DNp01 and it takes off, and tasting sugar drives the proboscis motor neuron MN9. Up to ten brains run in parallel. The flies age, die and pass on mutations by Mendelian rules.

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