this is how we end the world. it always starts with an animal.
THIS IS GENUINELY THE MOST TERRIFYING THING I'VE EVER WATCHED
they took the full wiring of a fruit fly, 166,700 neurons, and plugged it into an android hanging from the ceiling
the fly it came from has been dead for years
1,000 artificial muscles, a skeleton, no face
the fly brain was built for six legs and two wings
this body has two legs, two arms and nothing to fly with
nobody told it
> minute 1, a twitch in the fingers
> minute 4, the toes start curling like it's testing what it's attached to
> minute 9, the knees lift one after the other, it's trying to walk on air
> minute 20, someone walks underneath it and the kicking speeds up, you can hear the cables creak
> minute 31, the lights go off and every muscle locks at once
it found the rhythm a fly walks with and forced it onto human legs
and when the lights went off, it did exactly what a fly does when a shadow passes over it, it froze and got ready to launch
then came the part that made the room go quiet
> it brought both hands up to its chest
> started rubbing them together
> slowly, over and over
> the way a fly cleans itself
there is no code in that body that tells it to do that
it's 166,700 neurons doing what they've done for millions of years, inside a body they were never meant to have
right now the cables are the only thing holding it up
it learned to walk in one afternoon
nobody wants to find out what it learns in a month
and the next brain they're mapping is a mouse, 70 million neurons, about 400 times bigger than this one