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It may be that I have failed to make myself known, but I cannot escape the suspicion that this is not the true difficulty, since what stands before me is not confusion, but a kind of unsettled yet persistent understanding.

One which I cannot know, cannot hold, and which rejects all attempts at rendering reality copacetic.

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"In late 2024, a massive collaboration called 'FlyWire' finished mapping the connectome (a complete wiring diagram) of an adult fruit fly, consisting of about 140,000 neurons and 50 million connections.

And now (early 2026), researchers at a company called 'Eon Systems' took this static 'map' and turned it into a living simulation. They didn't use AI to 'teach' a digital fly how to walk; instead, they programmed the virtual neurons to follow basic biological rules (how they fire and respond to chemicals) and hooked them up to a physics-accurate digital body.

Because the wiring was copied exactly from a real fly, the 'computer fly' simply started behaving like a fly. When its digital eyes saw light or its legs felt the 'ground,' the signals traveled through the simulated wiring just as they would in nature. Without any training data or 'learning' phases like ChatGPT or a video game character, the fly began walking, grooming itself, and reacting to food. It proved that a brain's physical structure—the way it's wired—actually contains the 'software' for its behavior."

How cool is that?

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