Simulation & Emulation

Flyer

PixeLabs (@thepixelabs)

Asks a whole-brain FlyWire model, run with the Shiu et al. 2024 equations, what it will eat. Sugar stays on and each of 63 other tastes and smells is added in turn while the proboscis motor neuron MN9 is measured, with promising channels re-tested and confirmed under fresh noise. Six searches from different noise gave the same answer: water, low salt and one pharyngeal channel, worth about 12 to 16 extra spikes per second. No smell was ever picked; of 53 smells, 18 pushed feeding down and 35 did nothing, which the authors call a result about eating, not about what a fly likes to smell.

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Flyer

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