Fly vs Jev: Pong

Puts a connectome and a language model on the same Pong court under the same rules. Neither moves continuously: while the ball approaches, each player looks four times and picks one of eleven paddle heights, and neither is told where the ball will arrive. For the fly, each candidate becomes a picture centred where its paddle would be, landing on 3,316 real R1-R6 photoreceptors; the MaleCNS connectome then runs as a spiking network for 150 ms per candidate and a readout over 2,048 L1 and L2 neurons scores it. The wiring never changes. Across 300 games the fly won 274.

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