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Fly / Wirehead

By Matty Hempstead

Born to fly. Handed a phone. An observation chamber for a fly watching an endless feed of insect videos.

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What’s actually happening

Video frames stimulate modeled sensory inputs in a locally running MaleCNS simulation. Body motion and neural telemetry are displayed in a browser; the phone advances every three seconds.

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Sources reviewed September 16, 2026. Experiments were not independently reproduced.