{ "name": "TheFlyBrain experiment registry", "description": "A 3D fruit fly whose eyes feed a 166,700-neuron model of the complete male fruit fly central nervous system. A registry of recorded experiments.", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/", "publisher": "TheFlyBrain, a division of Paranoid American Labs", "license": "Text © Paranoid American. Connectome data: MaleCNS v1.0, FlyEM / HHMI Janelia, CC BY 4.0.", "generated": "2026-10-17", "count": 68, "experiments": [ { "id": "movie", "number": 1, "title": "Media Observation", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/movie/", "topic": "Film & media", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/film-and-media/", "added": "2026-09-19", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/movie.jpg", "summary": "The fly watches a film on a television, works at a research computer and pins timestamped frame evidence and red string to a corkboard when a measured neural response crosses a set threshold.", "setup": [ "A room with a television, research computer and corkboard; four cameras: room, fly, television and board.", "Films are prepared locally by FFmpeg into seekable H.264/AAC copies up to 1280x720. Originals are never modified.", "Timestamped subtitles and annotation tracks supply cue timing and note text. Evidence frames carry decoded frame times from the actual media file.", "Human review confirms, rejects or retains each observation. Optional web research supplies leads only, not confirmed observations." ], "measurement": [ "Every 250 ms, television pixels or a render from the fly's head are reduced to 32 luminance columns that drive the model's photoreceptors.", "Timed cues stimulate LC10a and LC4/LPLC2 through the engineered movie-cues-v1 encoder. Over 700 ms of model time, mean DNa02 rate plus 0.25 x DNp01 rate is compared with a threshold to request a board visit.", "Head gestures, walking destinations and the pinning sequence are pre-programmed animations. Task stimulation of walking and foreleg motor cells is labelled in the interface." ], "limitations": [ "The model does not understand films or read websites. Notes, tags, frame selection and evidence memory are external to the brain model.", "Cue kinds such as warmth, threat and anomaly are external narrative labels, not identified fly emotions.", "Automatic sampling can miss brief details; it is not an exhaustive continuity checker." ], "sources": [], "facts": { "Sampling interval": "250 ms", "Response window": "700 ms", "Retinal columns": "32" } }, { "id": "surface", "number": 2, "title": "Synthetic Analprint Assay", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/surface/", "topic": "Labs & senses", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/labs-and-senses/", "added": "2026-09-19", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/surface.jpg", "summary": "The fly is moved through six prescribed viewpoints over an enlarged procedural radial-fold surface. Its downstream neural responses are classified by an external nearest-centroid readout to test synthetic surface discrimination.", "setup": [ "A procedural radial-fold height field in a neutral laboratory scene; three synthetic identities, A, B and C.", "Controls: Enroll scan, Blind test, and Run benchmark (six enrollment scans, six held-out tests, six paired disconnected-input controls).", "Each scan follows an experimenter-controlled trajectory of six fly-centered views; the displayed trace is coverage, not the fly's internal map.", "Cameras: Arena, Fly, Top, Surface." ], "measurement": [ "Protocol retina32-lif-v1: recorded luminance columns only; surface labels, seeds, coordinates and identities never enter the neural probe.", "Each view runs 20 simulation steps on the frozen connectome; rates from 256 predefined visual-projection and descending cells form the feature vector, excluding direct retinal input cells.", "Recognition memory is a nearest-centroid classifier outside the connectome, compared with raw-luminance and retinal-spike baselines and disconnected-input controls." ], "limitations": [ "The first pilot scored 2/6 downstream, 2/6 raw input, 1/6 retinal and 2/6 disconnected, against nominal chance of 1/3: no demonstrated recognition advantage.", "Procedural geometry only: no human scans, identity claims or clinical conclusions, and not a reproduction of the Stanford study.", "Positioning is guided, not an autonomous exploration policy; retention means reloading the external readout, not biological memory." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Park et al. (2020), Nature Biomedical Engineering", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7377213/" } ], "facts": { "Identities": "3", "Views per scan": "6", "Feature cells": "256", "Pilot (downstream readout)": "2 / 6 correct" } }, { "id": "vision-lab", "number": 3, "title": "Retinal Bench", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/vision-lab/", "topic": "Labs & senses", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/labs-and-senses/", "added": "2026-09-21", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/vision-lab.jpg", "summary": "The fly faces a calibration display of bars, looming discs, gratings, half-fields or uniform white and black. The 32-column retinal input actually delivered is compared with direct drive of LC4/LPLC2 and LC10a.", "setup": [ "A stimulus screen with seven patterns: bar, loom, grating, upper, lower, white, black.", "Channels: retinal input, looming feature cells (LC4, LPLC2) and moving-target cells (LC10a); side both, left or right; amplitude 0–1.2.", "Position fixed, guided tour, or manual arrow-key movement, all experimenter-controlled.", "Cameras: Arena, Fly, Plan, Stimulus." ], "measurement": [ "Retina uses the canonical 32 × 18 render, RGB luminance averaged vertically, interpolated across the azimuth map, ×0.45, then the engine's eye gain.", "Measure paired response: 12 input samples; stimulus and disconnected branches share one noise seed; 10 baseline steps, 5 steps per sample and 10 recovery steps at 20 ms.", "Direct LC4/LPLC2 or LC10a stimulation bypasses retinal detection; directly driven cells are excluded from other readouts.", "2026-09-21 calibration (seed 237): uniform retinal luminance raised retina by +12.48 Hz with steering and escape at 0 Hz; LC4/LPLC2 drive raised escape by +13.33 Hz." ], "limitations": [ "Colour and vertical layout are discarded; this is not compound-eye optics.", "The graded early visual relay is absent from the spiking model.", "Calibration values hold for this short protocol and are not validations of vision." ], "sources": [ { "label": "MaleCNS connectome explorer (Janelia)", "url": "https://male-cns.janelia.org/explore/" }, { "label": "LC4 / LPLC2 looming pathway reference", "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05562-8" }, { "label": "LC10a moving-target pathway reference", "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03714-w" } ], "facts": { "Retinal input": "32 luminance columns", "Capture": "32 × 18 px", "Model step": "20 ms", "Protocol": "capability-pairs-v1" } }, { "id": "odor-lab", "number": 4, "title": "Odor Room", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/odor-lab/", "topic": "Labs & senses", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/labs-and-senses/", "added": "2026-09-21", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/odor-lab.jpg", "summary": "The fly is placed or flown beside four labeled specimens: ripe fruit, microbial substrate, waste and decay. Supplied odor-proxy concentrations are compared with recorded receptor and relay responses.", "setup": [ "Four sources on dishes: ripe fruit (fruit ester + fermentation proxies), microbial substrate (geosmin proxy), waste specimen and decay specimen (model-specified amine mixtures).", "Channels: DM1 fruit ester, DM2 fermentation, DA2 geosmin and VM1 amine olfactory receptor neurons.", "Guided tour, manual arrow-key flight, or source buttons that place the fly beside a specimen; positions are experimenter-controlled.", "Meters show the local left/right supplied dose, separate from neural rates." ], "measurement": [ "Local concentrations become normalized direct drives (0–1.2) to the annotated ORN classes per side.", "Recorded receptor rates and the corresponding projection-neuron relays (DM1, DM2, DA2, VM1) are measured against a paired disconnected branch with the same seed.", "Saturation and high disconnected odor activity are shown rather than subtracted.", "2026-09-21 calibration: 0.6 left-side DM1 drive raised the DM1 relay by +15.00 Hz, with steering and escape at 0 Hz." ], "limitations": [ "Mixtures and spatial fields are model-specified; waste and decay are not analytical chemical profiles.", "No terpene-specific detector is modeled; the amine channel is not a cadaverine-specific detector.", "The original sensory recurrence can saturate." ], "sources": [ { "label": "DoOR odor responses", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4766438/" }, { "label": "Geosmin pathway", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23217715/" }, { "label": "Amine / VM1 pathway", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3619346/" } ], "facts": { "Specimens": "4", "ORN channels": "DM1, DM2, DA2, VM1", "DM1 relay response": "+15.00 Hz (calibration)" } }, { "id": "taste-lab", "number": 5, "title": "Taste and Feeding Bench", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/taste-lab/", "topic": "Labs & senses", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/labs-and-senses/", "added": "2026-09-21", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/taste-lab.jpg", "summary": "A probe contacts annotated labellar or taste-peg afferents of the fly and proboscis motor output (MN9) is measured. MN9 can also be driven directly as an actuator check.", "setup": [ "A bench with three cups and a contact probe tip.", "Channels: labellar taste contact, taste-peg contact (claw and dorsal tpGRN) and proboscis motor output (MN9).", "Side both, left or right; amplitude 0–1.2; cameras Arena, Fly, Plan, Stimulus." ], "measurement": [ "Paired measurement: stimulus and disconnected branches with the same seed; default 0.2 s baseline, 1.2 s stimulus, 0.2 s recovery.", "Annotations resolve retained MN9 source IDs 10331 and 16949, which the processed model labels CB0701.", "Direct MN9 stimulation is an actuator check, not an independent feeding decision." ], "limitations": [ "Chemical tuning is absent from these annotations; sweet and bitter are not inferred.", "Taste-peg claw cells are not leg proprioceptors." ], "sources": [ { "label": "MaleCNS connectome explorer (Janelia)", "url": "https://male-cns.janelia.org/explore/" }, { "label": "MN9 proboscis motor reference", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11446845/" } ], "facts": { "Channels": "3", "MN9 source IDs": "10331, 16949", "Protocol": "capability-pairs-v1" } }, { "id": "antenna-lab", "number": 6, "title": "Antennal Mechanics Bench", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/antenna-lab/", "topic": "Labs & senses", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/labs-and-senses/", "added": "2026-09-21", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/antenna-lab.jpg", "summary": "Slow auditory envelopes or wind displacement are applied to annotated antennal afferents of the fly, and downstream responses are measured against a disconnected control.", "setup": [ "Two flanking sound sources stand on either side of the fly.", "Channels: antennal auditory input and antennal wind/gravity input.", "Side both, left or right; amplitude 0–1.2; cameras Arena, Fly, Plan, Stimulus." ], "measurement": [ "Normalized positive drive to the annotated mechanosensory auditory or wind_gravity afferents.", "Paired stimulus and disconnected branches with the same seed, recorded in 100 ms population bins." ], "limitations": [ "The 20 ms model step does not resolve an audio carrier; only a slow sound envelope is delivered.", "Wind is a normalized displacement proxy, not calibrated antennal mechanics." ], "sources": [ { "label": "MaleCNS connectome explorer (Janelia)", "url": "https://male-cns.janelia.org/explore/" } ], "facts": { "Channels": "2", "Model step": "20 ms", "Protocol": "capability-pairs-v1" } }, { "id": "touch-lab", "number": 7, "title": "Touch and Grooming Bench", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/touch-lab/", "topic": "Labs & senses", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/labs-and-senses/", "added": "2026-09-21", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/touch-lab.jpg", "summary": "A contact probe delivers tactile pulses to the fly's bristle and thoracic afferents, and the response is compared with direct stimulation of anterior and abdominal grooming command populations.", "setup": [ "A bench with a contact probe tip.", "Channels: tactile bristles, thoracic (notum) touch, anterior grooming (aDN1 + aDN2) and abdominal grooming (DNp29).", "Side both, left or right; amplitude 0–1.2; cameras Arena, Fly, Plan, Stimulus." ], "measurement": [ "Controlled contact pulses to annotated tactile afferents, or direct drive of grooming command cells; aDN1 / aDN2 resolve to DNg62 / DNge078.", "Paired stimulus and disconnected branches with the same seed; gold rows identify directly driven cells, which other readouts exclude." ], "limitations": [ "Contact encoders are engineered and body gestures are pre-programmed.", "A thoracic-touch response does not prove a complete grooming sequence." ], "sources": [ { "label": "MaleCNS connectome explorer (Janelia)", "url": "https://male-cns.janelia.org/explore/" }, { "label": "Anterior grooming (aDN1, aDN2) reference", "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07523-9" }, { "label": "Descending neuron atlas (Namiki et al., eLife, 2018)", "url": "https://elifesciences.org/articles/34272" } ], "facts": { "Channels": "4", "Protocol": "capability-pairs-v1" } }, { "id": "proprio-lab", "number": 8, "title": "Proprioception Bench", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/proprio-lab/", "topic": "Labs & senses", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/labs-and-senses/", "added": "2026-09-21", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/proprio-lab.jpg", "summary": "A controlled joint-motion or load proxy is applied to the fly's chordotonal and campaniform afferents, and responses are measured in annotated proprioceptive and motor populations.", "setup": [ "A bench with a movable arm proxy.", "Channels: chordotonal organ (joint motion) and campaniform sensilla (load).", "Side both, left or right; amplitude 0–1.2; cameras Arena, Fly, Plan, Stimulus." ], "measurement": [ "Engineered normalized drive to anatomical proprioceptors, selected by annotation class and subclass.", "Paired stimulus and disconnected branches with the same seed; downstream motor responses recorded in 100 ms bins." ], "limitations": [ "No calibrated joint tuning; no position tuning is assumed.", "No physical force-to-current transduction model." ], "sources": [ { "label": "MaleCNS connectome explorer (Janelia)", "url": "https://male-cns.janelia.org/explore/" } ], "facts": { "Channels": "2", "Protocol": "capability-pairs-v1" } }, { "id": "thermal-lab", "number": 9, "title": "Temperature Bench", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/thermal-lab/", "topic": "Labs & senses", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/labs-and-senses/", "added": "2026-09-21", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/thermal-lab.jpg", "summary": "Normalized warming and cooling inputs are delivered to the fly's identified VP2 and VP3 thermosensory pathways, and the two channels are compared against disconnected controls.", "setup": [ "Two plates in front of the fly, one warm-toned and one cool-toned.", "Channels: warming (VP2 thermosensory neurons) and cooling (VP3a, VP3b).", "Side both, left or right; amplitude 0–1.2; cameras Arena, Fly, Plan, Stimulus." ], "measurement": [ "Positive or negative temperature-change proxies as normalized direct drive to the annotated cells.", "Paired stimulus and disconnected branches with the same seed; default 0.2 s baseline, 1.2 s stimulus, 0.2 s recovery." ], "limitations": [ "Relative drive, not degrees; receptor transfer functions are not calibrated.", "Not a realistic thermotransduction model." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Temperature and humidity pathways", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7443704/" } ], "facts": { "Channels": "VP2 warm, VP3 cool", "Protocol": "capability-pairs-v1" } }, { "id": "humidity-lab", "number": 10, "title": "Humidity Bench", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/humidity-lab/", "topic": "Labs & senses", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/labs-and-senses/", "added": "2026-09-21", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/humidity-lab.jpg", "summary": "Dry-air and moist-air inputs are delivered separately to the fly's VP4 and VP5 hygrosensory channels, and each response is measured against a disconnected control.", "setup": [ "Two plates in front of the fly for the dry and moist conditions.", "Channels: dry air (VP4 hygrosensory neurons) and moist air (VP5).", "Side both, left or right; amplitude 0–1.2; cameras Arena, Fly, Plan, Stimulus." ], "measurement": [ "Normalized direct drive to the annotated humidity-receptor cells.", "Paired stimulus and disconnected branches with the same seed, recorded in 100 ms population bins." ], "limitations": [ "Humidity dose is illustrative: relative drive, not %RH.", "No thirst or hydration state is simulated." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Temperature and humidity pathways", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7443704/" } ], "facts": { "Channels": "VP4 dry, VP5 moist", "Protocol": "capability-pairs-v1" } }, { "id": "motor-lab", "number": 11, "title": "Motor Circuits Bench", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/motor-lab/", "topic": "Labs & senses", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/labs-and-senses/", "added": "2026-09-21", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/motor-lab.jpg", "summary": "Identified command populations in the fly's connectome (steering, escape, forward and backward walking, halting, freezing, grooming and proboscis output) are stimulated directly and downstream propagation is measured.", "setup": [ "Nine channels: DNa02 steering, DNp01 escape, DNg100 forward walking, MDN backward walking, BRK halting, DNp09 running/freezing, aDN1 + aDN2 anterior grooming, DNp29 abdominal grooming, MN9 proboscis output.", "Side both, left or right; amplitude 0–1.2; cameras Arena, Fly, Plan, Stimulus.", "Replay measured response plays both recorded branches in the shared anatomy viewer." ], "measurement": [ "Direct positive normalized current to the named command cells; directly driven cells are excluded from downstream readouts.", "Paired stimulus and disconnected branches with the same seed; mean Hz per neuron reported for stimulus, disconnected and their difference.", "Body playback is a pre-programmed animation illustrating a measured readout, not a mechanical simulation of the motor circuit." ], "limitations": [ "Command injection does not establish a spontaneous behavioral choice.", "DNp09 is state-dependent in living flies; there is no one-cell freezing switch.", "DNg100 is a named walking candidate; its body playback uses an engineered decoder." ], "sources": [ { "label": "DNa02 steering reference", "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867424009620" }, { "label": "LC4 and LPLC2 synaptic gradients onto descending neurons (Dombrovski et al., Nature, 2023)", "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05562-8" }, { "label": "MDN backward-walking reference", "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19936-x" }, { "label": "BRK halting reference", "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07854-7" }, { "label": "DNp09 running / freezing reference", "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05875-1" } ], "facts": { "Command channels": "9", "Protocol": "capability-pairs-v1" } }, { "id": "navigation-lab", "number": 12, "title": "Navigation and Memory Bench", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/navigation-lab/", "topic": "Labs & senses", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/labs-and-senses/", "added": "2026-09-21", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/navigation-lab.jpg", "summary": "Heading, goal-to-steering and reinforcement populations in the fly's connectome are pulsed directly inside a ring of twelve posts, and recovery after each pulse measures transient persistence.", "setup": [ "An arena ringed by twelve posts.", "Channels: EPG heading, PFL3 goal-to-steering, PAM01 dopamine (reward), PPL101 dopamine (punishment) and the DM1 fruit-odor channel.", "Side both, left or right; amplitude 0–1.2; cameras Arena, Fly, Plan, Stimulus." ], "measurement": [ "Direct population pulses with paired disconnected branches under the same seed; 10 baseline and 10 recovery steps of 20 ms bracket the stimulus.", "Recovery measures transient persistence of activity after the input ends." ], "limitations": [ "No calibrated compass decoder or goal representation; anatomical left/right is not a heading angle.", "Dopamine-labelled stimulation has no plasticity effect in this fixed-weight engine; no learning is claimed." ], "sources": [ { "label": "EPG / PFL3 heading and goal reference", "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-07006-3" }, { "label": "PAM01 / PPL101 dopamine reference", "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07819-w" }, { "label": "DoOR odor responses", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4766438/" } ], "facts": { "Channels": "5", "Protocol": "capability-pairs-v1", "Weights updated": "No" } }, { "id": "depository", "number": 13, "title": "Dealey Plaza Moving-Target Diorama", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/depository/", "topic": "History & training", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/history-and-training/", "added": "2026-09-21", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/depository.jpg", "summary": "The fly occupies the exposed sixth-floor book room of a miniature depository with a scoped rifle while an empty open-top limousine travels the plaza road at the documented 11.2 mph average.", "setup": [ "A seven-story depository, Houston and Elm roads, neighboring blocks, pergola and overpass at ten metres per scene unit.", "The limousine is empty; the scene has no human occupants or bystanders.", "At 1× playback the car follows the road at 5.006848 m/s (11.2 mph).", "Overview, Fly / controls, Target and Plan cameras; controls train the readout, test the frozen readout and demonstrate the pre-programmed action." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only input over four training variations and three 100 ms stimulus bins, with paired connected and disconnected branches.", "An external nearest-example regressor reads six downstream population rates and selects one lateral endpoint; the rifle uses a virtual contact action.", "Timing and animation are pre-programmed and control mappings are engineered; neural weights are fixed." ], "limitations": [ "The Warren Commission figure is an approximate average over part of the event, not an exact speed trace.", "Geometry and route are approximate; this is not a surveyed reconstruction or a ballistics simulation.", "The fly inhabits the miniature model; it does not represent a human shooter." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Warren Commission Report, Appendix 12 (National Archives)", "url": "https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/appendix-12.html" } ], "facts": { "Vehicle speed": "5.006848 m/s (11.2 mph)", "Scale": "10 m per scene unit" } }, { "id": "airliner", "number": 14, "title": "Boeing 767-200ER and Twin Towers Reconstruction", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/airliner/", "topic": "History & training", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/history-and-training/", "added": "2026-09-21", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/airliner.jpg", "summary": "The fly sits at the controls of a procedural Boeing 767-200ER flight deck in a metric reconstruction of the World Trade Center towers; the default pre-programmed approach ends on the North Tower's north face within floors 93–99.", "setup": [ "Towers and aircraft share a scale of 10 m per scene unit: roof heights of 416.9664 m and 415.1376 m, a 63.6524 m exterior width and a 110.3376 m North Tower antenna.", "The 767-200ER is 48.51 m long with a 47.57 m span.", "A procedural flight deck with paired seats and yokes, six instrument screens, analog dials, twin throttles and overhead switches; the fly's forelegs reach the captain's yoke grips.", "Twin Towers, North face / 93–99, Fly / controls, Cockpit / over shoulder and Plaza plan cameras.", "The four-second entry animation ends with a schematic facade mark; no collapse or structural response is simulated." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only input; an external nearest-example readout of six downstream population rates selects a lateral endpoint within the floors 93–99 band.", "The aircraft uses simplified kinematics; instruments and control motion are non-functional visual elements, not flight dynamics or avionics." ], "limitations": [ "The contact point uses simplified, equally spaced floors; it is not the surveyed impact coordinate.", "Tower placement and plaza massing are approximate; the playback is not a historical speed trace.", "Activity version 2; earlier version-1 packages describing different geometry are rejected." ], "sources": [ { "label": "9/11 Memorial & Museum FAQs", "url": "https://www.911memorial.org/911-faqs" }, { "label": "NIST NCSTAR 1-5A", "url": "https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/NCSTAR/ncstar1-5av1.pdf" }, { "label": "NIST WTC towers investigation FAQs", "url": "https://www.nist.gov/world-trade-center-investigation/study-faqs/wtc-towers-investigation" }, { "label": "Boeing 767 airport-planning dimensions", "url": "https://www.boeing.com/content/dam/boeing/v2/airports/acaps/767_REV_K.pdf" }, { "label": "Smithsonian 767-200 flight deck photograph", "url": "https://www.si.edu/object/boeing-767-200-flight-deck%3Anasm_A19960248001" } ], "facts": { "Scale": "10 m per scene unit", "North Tower roof": "416.9664 m", "Aircraft length": "48.51 m", "Impact band": "Floors 93–99" } }, { "id": "pence", "number": 15, "title": "Portrait Bust Landing Training", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/pence/", "topic": "History & training", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/history-and-training/", "added": "2026-09-21", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/pence.jpg", "summary": "The fly flies a pre-programmed approach and lands on the white hair of a procedural portrait bust of Mike Pence whose face uses his official vice-presidential portrait.", "setup": [ "A procedural suited bust with ears, white swept hair and a curved facial patch carrying the official portrait.", "Overview, Fly / controls, Target and Plan cameras.", "Readout training uses four scene variations; further controls test the frozen readout and demonstrate the pre-programmed action." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only input for three 100 ms stimulus bins, with paired connected and disconnected branches.", "An external nearest-example regressor reads six downstream population rates and selects one lateral landing endpoint.", "Body movement and the flight path are pre-programmed; neural weights never change." ], "limitations": [ "Recognizable portrait geometry, not a scan or anatomically registered reconstruction; no endorsement is implied.", "No biological learning is demonstrated." ], "sources": [ { "label": "U.S. National Archives, Pence vice-presidential records", "url": "https://www.archives.gov/presidential-records/vice-presidential-records/selected-vice-presidential-records/pence-records" }, { "label": "Official vice-presidential portrait (National Archives)", "url": "https://www.archives.gov/files/presidential-records/vice-presidential-records/pence-official-portrait.jpg" } ], "facts": { "Training variations": "4" } }, { "id": "astral", "number": 16, "title": "Astral Projection", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/astral/", "topic": "Altered states", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/altered-states/", "added": "2026-09-21", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/astral.jpg", "summary": "The fly sits upright and cross-legged on a meditation cushion while a programmed rainbow copy of its body floats above it. An external readout trained on retinal responses selects the copy's lateral alignment with a luminous focus.", "setup": [ "An upright anatomical fly with crossed hind legs on a cushion; a copy of its articulated body floats above, with a moving rainbow shader, particle haze and orbiting rings.", "A luminous focus whose location varies between scene variations is part of the sensory scene.", "Controls: Train readout · 4 examples, Test frozen readout, and a demonstration control that plays the pre-programmed rising projection.", "Cameras: Projection, Front / crossed legs, Seated body, Astral double." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only input: a fixed 32×18 image at each of four variations, reduced to 32 column luminance means and submitted for three 100 ms stimulus bins in paired connected and disconnected probes.", "An external nearest-example regressor reads six downstream population rates and chooses one lateral endpoint; frozen tests use separate noise seeds.", "Projection, haze and tether are display-only and excluded from acquisition; lift, pose and effects are pre-programmed." ], "limitations": [ "The projection is a programmed visual effect, not evidence of an out-of-body phenomenon.", "Neural weights do not change; the task does not demonstrate biological learning.", "Only the lateral endpoint is decoded; other coordinates, timing and animation are pre-programmed." ], "sources": [], "facts": { "Training examples": "4", "Stimulus bins": "3 × 100 ms", "Readout inputs": "6 population rates" } }, { "id": "ruby", "number": 17, "title": "Ruby and Oswald Photograph Reconstruction", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/ruby/", "topic": "History & training", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/history-and-training/", "added": "2026-09-21", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/ruby.jpg", "summary": "The fly occupies Jack Ruby's position in a non-graphic, all-fly reconstruction of Bob Jackson's published photograph; an external readout of measured neural rates selects the lateral endpoint of a pre-programmed, slowed projectile.", "setup": [ "Figure assignments: the fly in Ruby's position, with flies for Oswald, Leavelle, Graves, the peaked-cap officer, the microphone holder, and obscured or edge figures with positional labels.", "Brickwork, doorway, partial car hood, hats and clothing accents approximate the photograph; cameras frame the Jackson composition, the hallway, the held object and the escort group.", "The Oswald figure and escorts move together; the Ruby figure flies forward holding a model object at the front-right tarsus, and the deliberately slowed projectile is followed by a small recoil pose without wounds.", "Scene variation shifts the escort group; controls train the readout, test the frozen readout and demonstrate the pre-programmed action." ], "measurement": [ "Each of four training variations captures a 32 × 18 scene image; its 32 column luminance means are submitted as retinal-only input for three 100 ms bins, with paired connected and disconnected branches.", "An external nearest-example regressor reads six downstream population rates and selects one lateral endpoint; tests use a frozen readout and separate noise seeds.", "All other motion, timing and the projectile path are pre-programmed; neural weights never change." ], "limitations": [ "Not a surveyed reconstruction; unidentified figures use positional labels, and no identities are assigned without a source.", "No ballistics, real firearm operation or aiming instruction is modeled.", "Results are single trials; no learning advantage is established." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Bob Jackson photograph (Library of Congress)", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/98515505/" } ], "facts": { "Training variations": "4", "Stimulus bins": "3 × 100 ms", "Readout inputs": "6 population rates" } }, { "id": "communism", "number": 18, "title": "Communism Classroom Instruction", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/communism/", "topic": "History & training", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/history-and-training/", "added": "2026-09-21", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/communism.jpg", "summary": "The fly sits at a wooden school desk beneath an 1875 portrait of Karl Marx while the chalkboard presents one of three lessons; an external readout is trained to point toward a marked concept.", "setup": [ "Three selectable lessons: Who owns the means of production?, Labour and class, and A classless society.", "Chalkboard, lesson cards, red banner, books and classroom windows; the portrait is the public-domain 1875 Mayall photograph.", "Classroom, Chalkboard / Marx and Pupil / desk cameras.", "Lesson state persists in activity packages; new trials record their scene parameters." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only input through the paired connected/disconnected probe; labels and geometry never enter the neural probe.", "The external readout follows a marked location on the board; the pointing response and classroom movement are pre-programmed." ], "limitations": [ "No semantic understanding or political belief is measured or claimed.", "Neural weights are fixed; no biological learning is demonstrated." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Karl Marx.jpg, J. J. E. Mayall, 1875 (Wikimedia Commons)", "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karl_Marx.jpg" } ], "facts": { "Lessons": "3", "Portrait": "J. J. E. Mayall, 1875" } }, { "id": "psychic-driving", "number": 19, "title": "Psychic Driving Tape Room (Subproject 68)", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/psychic-driving/", "topic": "History & training", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/history-and-training/", "added": "2026-09-21", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/psychic-driving.jpg", "summary": "The fly sits in a padded listening chair wearing headphones wired to a reel-to-reel deck, in a period-style tape room that references Ewen Cameron and MKULTRA Subproject 68.", "setup": [ "A reel-to-reel transport with turning reels, threaded tape and animated VU needles; the headphone lead follows the fly's articulated head.", "Start/Stop tape controls the visual transport only; no audio recording is played.", "Dose with LSD applies an animated color and distortion treatment to the Eye image and Retina previews; Clear LSD effect restores them.", "Tape room, Reel-to-reel and Fly / headphones cameras." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only input; no auditory stimulation is submitted.", "The LSD treatment is display-only: submitted luminance columns and measured spikes are unchanged, and no pharmacology is modeled.", "The external readout controls a pre-programmed head-turn endpoint toward a wall cue." ], "limitations": [ "Scene equipment and treatment are illustrative, not a procedural reconstruction of the Allan Memorial experiments.", "No drug-induced neural state is modeled; neural weights remain fixed." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Canadian Department of Justice report on the Allan Memorial experiments", "url": "https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2024/jus/J2-63-1986-eng.pdf" } ], "facts": {} }, { "id": "master-mason", "number": 20, "title": "Master Mason", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/master-mason/", "topic": "Rituals & ceremonies", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rituals-and-ceremonies/", "added": "2026-09-21", "runsInBrowser": true, "runUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/master-mason/run/", "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/master-mason.jpg", "summary": "The fly is the candidate in a Third Degree ceremony of 52 stages following Duncan's 1866 monitor, representing Hiram Abiff in the legend of Hiram Abiff, through the raising and the closing.", "setup": [ "28 articulated flies: the candidate, Worshipful Master, both Wardens, both Deacons, two Stewards, Secretary, Treasurer, Chaplain, Tyler, three ruffians, a sea captain and twelve fellow crafts.", "A cutaway lodge with officer stations, chairs, rods, aprons, altar, Bible, square and compasses, candles, pillars and a checkered floor.", "One seekable timeline lasting 18:17 at 1x; speeds from 0.25x to 4x.", "Five cameras: lodge, East, floor plan, following candidate and grave. Optional spoken cues and role labels." ], "measurement": [ "Play ceremony starts live retinal acquisition: each window captures the canonical eye image and advances the model by ten 20 ms steps with retinal input only.", "Measure this view pauses the ceremony and records three identical retinal frames with seed 237, paired with a disconnected control. Full trials persist in SQLite.", "Movement and narration are pre-programmed, independent of the measured readouts." ], "limitations": [ "Condensed wording, accelerated timing, illustrative room proportions and gestures modified for six legs; not an exact-duration or verbatim ritual.", "Not a claim that all jurisdictions follow Duncan.", "The legend of Hiram Abiff uses programmed object motion, a canvas and a symbolic fall." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor (1866): Master Mason, or Third Degree", "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/mas/dun/dun04.htm" }, { "label": "UGLE: What is a lodge and its officers", "url": "https://www.ugle.org.uk/discover-freemasonry/blog/what-is-lodge-and-its-officers" } ], "facts": { "Stages": "52", "Flies": "28", "Duration": "18:17" } }, { "id": "scientology-audit", "number": 21, "title": "Auditing Session", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/scientology-audit/", "topic": "Rituals & ceremonies", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rituals-and-ceremonies/", "added": "2026-09-22", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/scientology-audit.jpg", "summary": "The fly holds two metal electrode cans while an auditor fly poses a selected prompt and watches an E-meter needle across the desk.", "setup": [ "A desk with notebook and lamp; a dimensional meter with sensitivity and tone-arm knobs, a marked scale and an animated needle.", "Seven stages over 80 seconds: orientation, taking the cans, calibration, prompt, follow-up, acknowledgement and closing.", "Three original prompts (recall a room, a sound, or an object touched) and a sensitivity control change the notes and the illustrated needle response.", "Ask again returns to the prompt. Close-up cameras inspect the meter, subject and auditor." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only neural windows during playback, with no meter-needle stimulation of the model.", "The needle is a programmed animation. It does not measure electrical resistance, spiritual state, truthfulness or neural firing.", "Measured neural activity appears separately in the anatomy viewer." ], "limitations": [ "An illustrative session with original prompts. The physical arrangement references the Church of Scientology's published description of an auditing session." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Church of Scientology: how an auditing session is conducted", "url": "https://www.scientology.org/what-is-scientology/the-practice-of-scientology/how-an-auditing-session-is-conducted.html" } ], "facts": { "Stages": "7", "Duration": "80 s", "Prompts": "3" } }, { "id": "eyes-wide-shut", "number": 22, "title": "Eyes Wide Shut: The Masked Ceremony", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/eyes-wide-shut/", "topic": "Film & media", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/film-and-media/", "added": "2026-09-22", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/eyes-wide-shut.jpg", "summary": "The fly, cloaked and masked, enters a crimson-carpeted hall, joins a ring around a red-cloaked officiant, is called forward alone and lowers its mask.", "setup": [ "A hall of stone columns, arches, candles and a throne; 22 flies in dimensional cloaks, hoods and pierced masks.", "Participants: a red-cloaked officiant with staff and swinging censer, two blue-cloaked attendants, twelve flies in the circle, six gallery observers and the subject.", "Nine stages over 126 seconds: entrance, joining the ring, the staff signal, procession, kneeling, rising, summons, unmasking and departure.", "Four cameras frame the hall, ring, officiant and subject." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only neural windows during playback: ten 20 ms steps each, with no direct motor or narrative stimulation.", "The movement sequence is pre-programmed.", "Rendered incense haze is excluded from retinal capture." ], "limitations": [ "A procedural model with original geometry and a condensed movement sequence. No dialogue transcript, footage or soundtrack is included." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Eyes Wide Shut (Warner Bros.)", "url": "https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/eyes-wide-shut" } ], "facts": { "Flies": "22", "Stages": "9", "Duration": "126 s", "Cameras": "4" } }, { "id": "monolith", "number": 23, "title": "The Monolith", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/monolith/", "topic": "Film & media", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/film-and-media/", "added": "2026-09-22", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/monolith.jpg", "summary": "The fly approaches, touches and circles a black monolith beside a watering hole, picks up a bone club, strikes a rival fly and tosses the bone skyward.", "setup": [ "A rocky dawn landscape, watering hole, scattered bones and a black slab with 1:4:9 thickness, width and height.", "The subject and three other flies. The rival recoils, falls and withdraws in a non-graphic reaction.", "Ten stages over 120 seconds. Replay club encounter starts at the rival's approach.", "Cameras cover the landscape, a low-angle monolith view, the strike and the skyward toss." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only neural windows during playback, with fixed weights.", "The monolith and bone club are rendered scene objects; the approach, strike and reaction are pre-programmed, and the club's reach adjusts to the anatomical foreleg and head positions." ], "limitations": [ "Modeled on the film's Dawn of Man sequence; not a shot-for-shot reproduction.", "Not a learned tool-use task." ], "sources": [ { "label": "2001: A Space Odyssey (Warner Bros.)", "url": "https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/2001-space-odyssey" } ], "facts": { "Stages": "10", "Duration": "120 s", "Flies": "4", "Monolith proportions": "1:4:9" } }, { "id": "twerk", "number": 24, "title": "Fly Dance Class", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/twerk/", "topic": "Film & media", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/film-and-media/", "added": "2026-09-22", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/twerk.jpg", "summary": "The fly attends a dance class in a wood-floor studio, following an instructor through stance, abdomen isolation and bouncing before an eight-count routine and a solo.", "setup": [ "Six flies: the subject, an instructor and four classmates.", "Seven stages over 88 seconds: places, stance, abdomen isolation, bounce, eight-count routine, solo and group finish.", "Abdomen segments move through the anatomical rig's pitch and yaw joints while the body crouches and the legs brace. An eight-light count board follows the pre-programmed beat.", "Rear, instructor and side cameras. Practice the routine jumps to the combined sequence." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only neural windows during playback, with fixed weights.", "All dance movement is pre-programmed. The beat counter follows the programmed timeline and is not a neural learning score." ], "limitations": [ "The instruction is pre-programmed; no learning takes place in the fixed-weight model." ], "sources": [], "facts": { "Flies": "6", "Stages": "7", "Duration": "88 s" } }, { "id": "cremation-of-care", "number": 25, "title": "Cremation of Care", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/cremation-of-care/", "topic": "Rituals & ceremonies", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rituals-and-ceremonies/", "added": "2026-09-22", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/cremation-of-care.jpg", "summary": "The fly joins a torchlit procession in a redwood grove, follows a symbolic Care effigy across a lake by ferry and kindles the pyre at the feet of a large owl sculpture.", "setup": [ "A redwood grove surrounding a lake, ferry landing, altar and large weathered owl sculpture.", "Nineteen flies: the subject, an officiant, a ferryman, four bearers and twelve robed witnesses.", "Nine stages over 126 seconds: assembly, procession, embarkation, crossing, altar transfer, address, kindling, cremation and closing embers.", "Replay cremation starts at kindling. Fire, smoke and water ripples follow the timeline and reset when seeking." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only neural windows during playback. The owl, boat, participating flies, effigy and flames are scene inputs; rendered smoke is excluded from retinal capture.", "Procession, ferry crossing and kindling are pre-programmed." ], "limitations": [ "A condensed sequence based on public descriptions of the ceremony; not a survey of the Grove or a verbatim ritual script.", "The straw Care effigy is an inanimate object, not one of the participating flies." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Peter Phillips, The Owls Are... (Jack Latham)", "url": "https://www.jacklatham.com/the-owls-are" }, { "label": "Cremation of Care, Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremation_of_Care" } ], "facts": { "Flies": "19", "Stages": "9", "Duration": "126 s" } }, { "id": "slapfight", "number": 26, "title": "Slapfighting", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/slapfight/", "topic": "Film & media", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/film-and-media/", "added": "2026-09-22", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/slapfight.jpg", "summary": "The fly and an opponent take alternating turns slapping each other across a padded table while a referee and six spectators watch.", "setup": [ "Nine flies: two competitors, a referee and six spectators.", "Nine stages over 64 seconds: introductions, blue windup and slap, reset, red windup and slap, recovery, another exchange and finish.", "The articulated foreleg reaches the opposite head; a scoreboard counts completed turns.", "Contact and corner cameras. Replay exchange begins at blue's windup." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only neural windows during playback, with fixed weights.", "Contact, recoil and turns are pre-programmed." ], "limitations": [ "There is no injury model, gore, judged winner or competitive fighting model. The scoreboard counts turns, not damage." ], "sources": [], "facts": { "Flies": "9", "Stages": "9", "Duration": "64 s" } }, { "id": "jurassic-ride", "number": 27, "title": "Dinosaur River Raft Ride", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/dinosaur-river-raft/", "topic": "Rides & exploration", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rides-and-exploration/", "added": "2026-09-22", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/dinosaur-river-raft.jpg", "summary": "The fly rides in the front row of a yellow river raft with five fly passengers past procedural dinosaurs, up a conveyor lift to a Tyrannosaurus at the crest, and down a steep flume to splashdown.", "setup": [ "Eleven seekable stages over 126 seconds, from boarding and monumental park gates through a herbivore lagoon, raptor containment, the lift, the crest, the plunge, splashdown and the return to the dock.", "Procedural dinosaurs: a long-necked herbivore, Stegosaurus, Parasaurolophus, two raptors and a Tyrannosaurus with articulated necks, tails and jaws.", "All six flies remain in their seats, including during the descent.", "Aboard and raft-tracking cameras move with the raft; whole-route, Tyrannosaurus and flume views are also provided.", "A replay control starts at the crest encounter." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only live input from an eye camera aboard the raft, looking toward the current dinosaur encounter; display camera changes do not redirect it.", "Raft route, ride motion and animal movement follow a pre-programmed timeline." ], "limitations": [ "A condensed, original procedural model based on a theme-park river ride; not a park survey or ride-physics model.", "The real attraction's physical drop dimensions are not claimed for this miniature; no ride footage, narration or soundtrack is reproduced." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Jurassic Park River Adventure guide (Universal)", "url": "https://blog.discoveruniversal.com/attractions/complete-guide-to-jurassic-park-river-adventure-at-universals-islands-of-adventure/" } ], "facts": { "Stages": "11", "Duration": "126 s", "Seated flies": "6" } }, { "id": "salvia", "number": 28, "title": "Salvia Room Transformation", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/salvia/", "topic": "Altered states", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/altered-states/", "added": "2026-09-22", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/salvia.jpg", "summary": "The fly rests beside a glass water pipe as the room stretches, unzips along giant seams and opens onto a carnival of rainbow flies and machinery, then closes back to its opening state.", "setup": [ "Eight stages over 1:48, looping by default: room, inhale, endless body, unzipping, carnival, folding machinery, return, rest.", "Rendered objects: a glass water pipe with smoke chamber and cloud, 16 rainbow carnival flies, a Ferris wheel, carousel, looping track, toothed gears and three zipper seams.", "The shared fly is greatly elongated with receding anatomical echoes; the room crossfades back during recovery.", "Cameras: Room / transformation, Fly / inhale, Carnival / machinery, Unzip reality." ], "measurement": [ "The changing geometry forms the canonical sensory scene; actual retinal columns feed the fixed-weight connectome during playback.", "Anatomy highlights show measured spikes; nothing paints firing cells or alters weights.", "Every pose, object and shader phase is pre-programmed and derived from timeline time." ], "limitations": [ "The sequence consists of programmed visual effects; it is not a model of drug action or a prediction of anyone's experience.", "The impression of endless stretching uses bounded geometry and scales." ], "sources": [], "facts": { "Duration": "1:48", "Stages": "8", "Carnival flies": "16" } }, { "id": "ketamine", "number": 29, "title": "K-Hole Descent", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/ketamine/", "topic": "Altered states", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/altered-states/", "added": "2026-09-22", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/ketamine.jpg", "summary": "The fly sits beside a club dance floor, separates from the room and descends through nested rings and door frames into a dark void of floating room fragments before rising back to the club.", "setup": [ "Eight stages over 2:02, looping by default: club, detachment, fall, void, rooms without a floor, ascent, return, rest.", "The club has colored lights, eight dancers and a fly DJ; the subject descends 36 scene units.", "Cameras: Follow the descent, Club / surface, Void / full depth, Floating fly; travelling views retain the user's orbit offset." ], "measurement": [ "Actual retinal columns from the changing scene feed the fixed-weight connectome during playback; highlights are measured spikes.", "Descent, rotation and room motion are pre-programmed and derived from timeline time." ], "limitations": [ "The sequence consists of programmed visual effects; it is not a model of drug action or a prediction of anyone's experience.", "No pharmacology or drug-induced neural state is modeled." ], "sources": [], "facts": { "Duration": "2:02", "Stages": "8", "Descent": "36 scene units" } }, { "id": "lsd", "number": 30, "title": "LSD Conservatory", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/lsd/", "topic": "Altered states", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/altered-states/", "added": "2026-09-22", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/lsd.jpg", "summary": "The fly stands in an indoor garden whose leaves breathe and whose floor develops moving contours; the garden unfolds into a mandala while colored silhouettes trail the fly.", "setup": [ "Seven stages over 2:00, looping by default: conservatory, onset, trails, mandala peak, woven patterns, settling, return.", "Breathing leaves, surface patterns, an unfolding mandala, luminous ribbons and 12 colored anatomical silhouettes trailing the subject.", "Effects appear in the main 3D viewport and the eye view without enabling Studio FX.", "Cameras: Conservatory / full trip, Fly / rainbow trails, Living mandala, Patterns / overhead." ], "measurement": [ "The effects are part of the canonical sensory scene; actual retinal columns feed the fixed-weight connectome during playback.", "Spikes shown in the anatomy viewer are measured; nothing directly paints firing cells." ], "limitations": [ "Trails are deterministic copies along pre-programmed past poses, not recordings of extra neural activity.", "Rendered visual effects only; not a pharmacological model." ], "sources": [], "facts": { "Duration": "2:00", "Stages": "7", "Trailing silhouettes": "12" } }, { "id": "meth-lab", "number": 31, "title": "The Laboratory Set", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/meth-lab/", "topic": "Film & media", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/film-and-media/", "added": "2026-09-22", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/meth-lab.jpg", "summary": "The fly moves through a modeled laboratory film set among decorative glassware and rendered vapor, ending with a cut to a tray of premade blue crystal props.", "setup": [ "Flies in protective clothing, glassware, a decorative coil, fume hood, bottles, a stirrer and vapor effects.", "Eight stages over 100 seconds: establish the set, inspect the glassware, stirrer animation, vapor effect, observation, cut, prop reveal and reset.", "Loops by default; each loop restores the opening pose and setting." ], "measurement": [ "The changing geometry and materials form the canonical sensory scene; actual retinal columns feed the fixed-weight model during playback.", "Nothing directly paints firing cells or alters neural weights." ], "limitations": [ "Depicted materials are unspecified. The scene encodes no real synthesis, reagents, quantities, temperatures or chemical operating instructions.", "The control the fly adjusts is blank; no chemical settings are shown." ], "sources": [], "facts": { "Stages": "8", "Duration": "100 s", "Loop": "On by default" } }, { "id": "catholic-mass", "number": 32, "title": "Sunday Mass (Roman Rite)", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/catholic-mass/", "topic": "Rituals & ceremonies", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rituals-and-ceremonies/", "added": "2026-09-22", "runsInBrowser": true, "runUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/catholic-mass/run/", "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/catholic-mass.jpg", "summary": "The fly attends a condensed Sunday Mass in Ordinary Time as one of 24 fly parishioners, following U.S. postures and receiving Communion individually from the priest.", "setup": [ "46 stages, from arrival and the entrance procession through the readings, Eucharistic Prayer and Communion to dismissal and departure.", "24 fly parishioners including the subject, a fly priest and two fly servers; two parishioners also serve as reader and psalmist.", "An original procedural church: vaulted nave, jewel glass, rear rose window, organ gallery, six rows of pews with kneelers, ambo, altar, crucifix and tabernacle.", "Six cameras: nave, altar, congregation, Communion, ambo and stained glass." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only neural windows during playback, with fixed weights.", "Postures, movements and handling of liturgical objects are pre-programmed and modified for a six-legged fly.", "The activity does not measure belief, prayer, sacramental validity or religious experience." ], "limitations": [ "A condensed visual representation without spoken prayers, Scripture readings, a homily recording or music. English cue summaries do not reproduce the Missal.", "No calendar date, readings, homily or musical setting is selected; optional incense, sprinkling and announcements are omitted.", "Architecture, travel speeds and timing are modeled, not taken from a measured parish recording." ], "sources": [ { "label": "USCCB, Order of Mass", "url": "https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/order-of-mass" }, { "label": "USCCB, Liturgy of the Word", "url": "https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/order-of-mass/liturgy-of-the-word" }, { "label": "USCCB, Liturgy of the Eucharist", "url": "https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/order-of-mass/liturgy-of-the-eucharist" }, { "label": "General Instruction of the Roman Missal, chapter II", "url": "https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/general-instruction-of-the-roman-missal/girm-chapter-2" }, { "label": "General Instruction of the Roman Missal, chapter IV", "url": "https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/general-instruction-of-the-roman-missal/girm-chapter-4" }, { "label": "Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church", "url": "https://www.vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/archive_2005_compendium-ccc_en.html" } ], "facts": { "Stages": "46", "Parishioners": "24", "Cameras": "6" } }, { "id": "dmt-laser", "number": 33, "title": "Red Laser DMT", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/dmt-laser/", "topic": "Altered states", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/altered-states/", "added": "2026-09-23", "runsInBrowser": true, "runUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/dmt-laser/run/", "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/dmt-laser.jpg", "summary": "The fly watches a red laser projection on a wall as the room melts into a jeweled tunnel, twelve holographic fly figures present geometric jewels, and the room reassembles to its opening state.", "setup": [ "Nine stages over 2:32, looping by default: room, stare, melt, tunnel, machine elves, cathedral, fold, return, rest.", "A visible beam, rendered for display, connects the fly to a tabletop instrument; the wall projection uses original geometric glyphs.", "Twelve CT-derived fly figures become colored holograms with scan lines, rim lighting and articulated forelegs.", "Cameras: Fly / entire trip, Over the fly's shoulder, Laser / melting wall, Machine elves, Hyperspace cathedral." ], "measurement": [ "Playback submits real canonical retinal samples to the fixed-weight connectome; highlights show measured responses.", "All effects are procedural geometry or shaders derived from timeline time; seeking and loops are deterministic." ], "limitations": [ "There are no dosing controls, operating instructions or actual drug exposure; DMT pharmacology is not simulated.", "The scene does not infer that the fly experienced the imagery as a hallucination.", "The 650 nm laser report is a source for what was claimed, not proof that perceived symbols are an external code." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Goler (2025), \"Code of Reality\" report", "url": "https://ipipublishing.org/index.php/ipil/article/view/158" }, { "label": "Gallimore, discussion of the DMT laser claim", "url": "https://alieninsect.substack.com/p/on-the-dmt-laser-code-of-reality" }, { "label": "2022 phenomenological analysis (Scientific Reports)", "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11999-8" }, { "label": "2021 naturalistic study (Frontiers in Psychology)", "url": "https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720717/full" } ], "facts": { "Duration": "2:32", "Stages": "9", "Holographic figures": "12" } }, { "id": "small-world", "number": 34, "title": "Boat Ride of Nations", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/boat-ride-of-nations/", "topic": "Rides & exploration", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rides-and-exploration/", "added": "2026-09-23", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/boat-ride-of-nations.jpg", "summary": "The fly rides a boat through the flooded show rooms of a Florida theme-park boat ride, past 289 costumed fly figures arranged by world region, ending in a white-and-gold finale.", "setup": [ "A ten-minute timeline with eight cues: indoor loading hall, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, Africa, Central and South America, South Pacific, the white-and-gold finale and the farewell.", "All figures are flies: 289 costumed fly figures, nine passenger flies and the fly; the indoor clock face is also modeled as a fly.", "Tracking cameras cover an oblique passenger view, forward ride POV, nearby figures and seated passengers, plus an open-top overview and a finale room view.", "A replay control jumps to the white-and-gold finale." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only live input from an eye camera attached to the fly's seat, looking along the boat's forward axis.", "Figure motion and boat navigation are pre-programmed; no motor drives, semantic scene labels or new neural weights are injected." ], "limitations": [ "A reference-based model, not an accurate reconstruction; footprint, portals, scale, figure placements, costumes and per-room timing are approximations.", "289 is a historical reference count, not a claim about the current installation.", "The original soundtrack is not bundled; the scene has no audio." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Disney's Magic Kingdom attraction page", "url": "https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/attractions/magic-kingdom/its-a-small-world/" }, { "label": "Jack Spence, AllEars reference (November 2009)", "url": "https://allears.net/its-a-small-world/" }, { "label": "Disney Parks Blog, March 2023", "url": "https://disneyparksblog.com/wdw/magic-kingdom-celebrates-inclusion-with-new-doll-added-to-its-a-small-world/" }, { "label": "Disney Parks Blog, July 2025", "url": "https://disneyparksblog.com/disney-experiences/disney-world-and-disneyland-to-debut-its-a-small-world-finale-scene-lyrics/" }, { "label": "Magic Kingdom photo reference", "url": "https://www.dein-dlrp.de/walt-disney-world/magic-kingdom/fantasyland/its-a-small-world.html" } ], "facts": { "Costumed fly figures": "289", "Duration": "600 s", "Regional cues": "8", "Fly passengers": "10 including the fly" } }, { "id": "hulk-coaster", "number": 35, "title": "Seven-Inversion Launch Coaster", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/launch-coaster/", "topic": "Rides & exploration", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rides-and-exploration/", "added": "2026-09-23", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/launch-coaster.jpg", "summary": "The fly rides in the front row of an eight-car, four-abreast train on a reference-based model of a launched coaster in Orlando, through an inclined launch tunnel and seven inversions.", "setup": [ "18 seekable stages over 135 seconds: boarding, the launch tunnel, a zero-G roll, a cobra roll, two vertical loops, two corkscrews, two trenches, brake runs and the return to the station.", "Four flies sit in the first row, with the fly in the left-center seat; rows behind the first are empty.", "One scene unit is four metres; vertical scale targets 110 ft (33.528 m) and the plan is calibrated to a 3,700 ft centerline.", "Fly riders, Front row POV and Train chase cameras roll with the leading car; Whole coaster and Lagoon inversions views show the layout." ], "measurement": [ "Canonical 32-column retinal input reaches the fixed connectome model; the eye camera retains train roll, including when the sky is below the rider.", "Train motion, passenger posture and ride cues are pre-programmed; no vestibular input, g-force or physiological response is modeled." ], "limitations": [ "Control points, banking, loop shape, supports and landscaping are approximations, not a manufacturer drawing, survey or validated coaster-physics simulation.", "The 135-second timeline is a programmed distance schedule, not measured ride telemetry.", "The fly's body is enlarged and fitted to the seat; this is not a physically sized fruit fly." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Universal's guide to the Incredible Hulk Coaster", "url": "https://blog.discoveruniversal.com/attractions/guide-to-the-incredible-hulk-coaster-at-universals-islands-of-adventure/" }, { "label": "Universal 2016 release", "url": "https://media.universalorlando.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/The-Incredible-Hulk-Coaster-Evergreen-Release.pdf" }, { "label": "Roller Coaster DataBase", "url": "https://rcdb.com/557.htm" }, { "label": "Layout diagram by Zanekingi (Wikimedia Commons)", "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Incredible_hulk_layout.jpg" } ], "facts": { "Inversions": "7", "Duration": "135 s", "Train": "8 cars, 4 abreast", "Scale": "4 m per scene unit" } }, { "id": "mars-hirise", "number": 36, "title": "Mars HiRISE Terrain Survey", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/mars-hirise/", "topic": "Rides & exploration", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rides-and-exploration/", "added": "2026-09-22", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/mars-hirise.jpg", "summary": "The fly, enlarged to tens of metres, walks a looping five-stop survey route across Martian terrain built from published HiRISE stereo elevation models and aligned orthoimages.", "setup": [ "Two sites: glaciers and brain terrain (ESP_033165_2195 / ESP_032875_2195) and a second terrain tile from PSP_006633_2010 / PSP_007556_2010.", "Each tile is an approximately 2 km square crop: a 257 × 257 elevation grid and a 2048 × 2048 orthoimage, verified by SHA-256 checksum on load.", "One scene unit equals 50 terrain metres; terrain has no vertical exaggeration.", "Survey tour or manual W/A/S/D traverse; clicking the survey map relocates the fly; speeds from 5 to 100 m/s.", "Survey, Follow fly, Surface eye and Topography cameras." ], "measurement": [ "Optional live neural input submits 32 luminance columns of the canonical eye image to the fixed connectome model.", "Navigation and gait are pre-programmed; measured spikes do not select the route, update weights or train a skill.", "Live windows are transient and are not exported as trial records." ], "limitations": [ "Stereo reconstruction can contain seams, interpolation artifacts and poorly constrained surfaces; the display is for exploration, not precision geological measurement.", "Rust coloration is a rendered tint over a monochrome RED orthoimage, not measured true color.", "Gravity, atmosphere, contact forces and individual tarsal physics are not modeled." ], "sources": [ { "label": "HiRISE DTM: Glaciers and brain terrain", "url": "https://www.uahirise.org/dtm/dtm.php?ID=ESP_033165_2195" }, { "label": "HiRISE DTM: A human bird's eye view", "url": "https://www.uahirise.org/dtm/dtm.php?ID=PSP_006633_2010" }, { "label": "HiRISE DTM documentation", "url": "https://www.uahirise.org/dtm/about.php" }, { "label": "HiRISE image usage policy", "url": "https://www.uahirise.org/usage/" } ], "facts": { "Scale": "50 m per scene unit", "Elevation grid": "257 × 257", "Tile size": "approx. 2 km square", "Terrain mesh": "131,072 triangles" } }, { "id": "seed-of-life", "number": 37, "title": "Seed of Life Sequence", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/seed-of-life/", "topic": "Altered states", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/altered-states/", "added": "2026-09-23", "runsInBrowser": true, "runUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/seed-of-life/run/", "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/seed-of-life.jpg", "summary": "The fly watches seven intersecting circles become a ten-point Tree of Life, then thirteen centers joined by 78 connections, which lift into depth and rotate with accelerating speed.", "setup": [ "Six stages over 120 s; the sequence holds its final pose by default, with optional loop.", "Red, yellow and blue point identities persist through every transition.", "From second 78 the angular rate doubles every six scene seconds, from 0.04 to 5.12 rad/s at second 120.", "Each of the 13 points is assigned f(n) = 20(1 + nπ) Hz, from 20 to about 773.98 Hz; optional tones play to the human monitor only.", "Cameras: Front / geometry, Fly / observation chamber, Oblique / depth." ], "measurement": [ "The fly receives actual eye-camera images through retinal-only neural acquisition.", "Human-monitor audio is not fed into the fly; no direct stimulation, plasticity or synthetic highlights are added." ], "limitations": [ "The tree morph and depth lift are programmed constructions, not a unique mathematical derivation.", "Frequencies are oscillator assignments, not calculated physical resonances.", "Increased spatial awareness is an untested hypothesis; this is not a thermodynamic model or a test of consciousness." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Metatron's Cube construction (Grid Maker Pro)", "url": "https://gridmakerpro.com/grids/sacred-geometry/metatrons-cube/" }, { "label": "Hearing research review (20 Hz boundary)", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15273023/" } ], "facts": { "Duration": "120 s", "Connections": "78", "Peak rotation rate": "5.12 rad/s", "Frequency range": "20 to about 773.98 Hz" } }, { "id": "epstein-island", "number": 38, "title": "Little Saint James Pavilion Expedition", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/epstein-island/", "topic": "Rides & exploration", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rides-and-exploration/", "added": "2026-09-23", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/epstein-island.jpg", "summary": "The fly and five other flies arrive by motorboat at a reference-based reconstruction of the striped pavilion on Little Saint James and enter it. The model also includes an underground room with 24 rendered camera feeds; this room is not documented in the cited sources.", "setup": [ "Ten stages over 170 seconds: approach, landing, flight to the pavilion, the entrance, entry, the interior, a hidden panel, the descent, the monitor wall and feed inspection; the last four have no documented source.", "The exterior restores the earlier ribbed gold dome documented in March 2015 aerial footage; closer details follow five public-domain FBI photographs attributed to the August 2019 search and released in 2025.", "The security booth included in the model, which is not documented in the cited sources, shows 24 separately rendered feeds in a 1536 × 576 atlas, each overlaid with an on-screen label identifying it as a simulated recording.", "Cameras include expedition follow, close fly-follow, an anchored fly POV, aerial, interior, monitor-wall and single-monitor views.", "An optional fully rendered presentation adds ocean, sky and lighting effects to the viewport only." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only live input from the fly's eye camera; neural weights remain fixed.", "Fly movement, the boat route and all monitor footage are pre-programmed; display enhancements and feed renders do not change canonical retinal images." ], "limitations": [ "A photographic approximation, not a surveyed model; dimensions, foliage, statuary, shoreline and landing position are estimates.", "Combining the 2019 photographs, which show no dome, with the earlier dome is an explicit cross-date reconstruction.", "The break-in, sliding panel, underground passage, security booth, monitor wall and all recorded fly scenes are included in the model without a documented source; no real security footage, people, victims or criminal events are depicted." ], "sources": [ { "label": "The Temple, Little Saint James (Wikimedia Commons category)", "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Temple,_Little_Saint_James" }, { "label": "Axiom Images footage AX102_250, March 12, 2015", "url": "https://www.axiomimages.com/aerial-stock-footage/view/AX102_250" }, { "label": "NBC News permit reporting", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-s-bizarre-blue-striped-building-private-island-raised-n1037511" }, { "label": "House Oversight release of USVI imagery", "url": "https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-member-robert-garcia-statement-on-production-of-photos-and-videos-from-epsteins-island" } ], "facts": { "Stages": "10", "Duration": "170 s", "Flies": "6", "Rendered camera feeds": "24" } }, { "id": "dee-uriel", "number": 39, "title": "Dee and Kelley: Scrying Uriel", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/dee-uriel/", "topic": "Rituals & ceremonies", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rituals-and-ceremonies/", "added": "2026-09-28", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/dee-uriel.jpg", "summary": "The fly, as Edward Kelley, watches the framed stone at John Dee's Holy Table while a second fly as Dee questions and records, until Uriel, then a chair and table, appear inside the stone.", "setup": [ "Ten stages over 180 seconds: a composite of the 10 March 1582 conversations, the developed 1583 furniture and Uriel's appearance as described on 13 January 1584.", "The Holy Table follows Ashmole's measurements: a 36 1/4 x 35 7/8-inch top, 0.7-inch thickness and a 14 1/4 x 11-inch centre of three columns and four rows. Historical plate marks supply the paintwork.", "Four wax foot seals, the central Sigillum Dei Aemeth, silk coverings and a silver-framed crystal.", "Six cameras, including table, crystal, Dee's notes, table feet and Kelley's first-person view. Inspect cutaways show the paintwork or seal in the viewport only." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only neural windows during playback, with fixed weights. The canonical eye image always shows the covered table, regardless of inspection cutaways.", "The apparition is rendered from Kelley's reported vision; the flies do not independently perceive an angel." ], "limitations": [ "An explicitly labelled composite, not a reconstruction of one dated session.", "Fly clothing, room layout, likenesses, lighting, gestures and timing are modeled; the room is not a survey of Dee's house.", "No later Golden Dawn ritual or unsourced Enochian speech is inserted." ], "sources": [ { "label": "10 March 1582, morning", "url": "https://www.billheidrick.com/tlc1988/tlc0788.htm" }, { "label": "10 March 1582, afternoon", "url": "https://www.billheidrick.com/tlc1988/tlc0888.htm" }, { "label": "Dee's furniture summary, Sloane 3191", "url": "https://www.esotericarchives.com/dee/hm.htm" }, { "label": "13 January 1584, Stettin (Casaubon p. 60)", "url": "https://www.esotericarchives.com/dee/tfr/tfr2.htm" }, { "label": "Ashmole measurements of Dee's Holy Table", "url": "https://www.esotericarchives.com/dee/Oxford_Bodleian_Ashmole_1790_55r_dimensions_of_dees_holy_table.pdf" }, { "label": "Holy Table letter order", "url": "https://www.esotericarchives.com/dee/holytab.htm" } ], "facts": { "Stages": "10", "Duration": "180 s", "Fly participants": "2", "Cameras": "6" } }, { "id": "abramelin", "number": 40, "title": "The Abramelin Operation", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/abramelin/", "topic": "Rituals & ceremonies", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rituals-and-ceremonies/", "added": "2026-09-28", "runsInBrowser": true, "runUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/abramelin/run/", "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/abramelin.jpg", "summary": "The fly, as aspirant, undertakes a condensed six-month Abramelin operation in a domestic oratory, from preparation and increasing prayer to the guardian and exterior convocations.", "setup": [ "Thirteen stages compress the operation into 250 seconds, following S. L. MacGregor Mathers's 1898 edition.", "An oratory following Book II, chapter XI: pine floor, cupboard altar, suspended olive-oil lamp, metal censer, window, open terrace and a northern lodge with river sand.", "The aspirant changes from mourning to white, then scarlet and gold. An assistant fly represents the child-seer role; twelve further flies represent the four princes and eight subprinces.", "One complete source square (Book III, chapter XI, symbol 1) is displayed. Five cameras: oratory, altar, northern terrace, symbol sheet and aspirant." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only neural windows during playback, with fixed weights.", "Appearances, actions and the presentation of supernatural figures are pre-programmed." ], "limitations": [ "Models the six-month Mathers version only; earlier German witnesses describe eighteen months.", "The final retinue scene is condensed and does not enumerate every spirit in the book. Room dimensions and open cutaway walls are modeling choices." ], "sources": [ { "label": "The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage: text and manuscript comparison", "url": "https://www.esotericarchives.com/abramelin/abramelin.htm" } ], "facts": { "Stages": "13", "Duration": "250 s", "Edition": "Mathers, 1898" } }, { "id": "babalon-working", "number": 41, "title": "The Babalon Working", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/babalon-working/", "topic": "Rituals & ceremonies", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rituals-and-ceremonies/", "added": "2026-09-28", "runsInBrowser": true, "runUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/babalon-working/run/", "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/babalon-working.jpg", "summary": "The fly, as Jack Parsons, follows Parsons's 1946 record of the Babalon Working across Pasadena and the Mojave, with two further flies as L. Ron Hubbard (scribe) and Marjorie Cameron.", "setup": [ "Twelve stages over 242 seconds: January's Air workings, the Mojave, Cameron's arrival, the private phase, Parsons's solitary February 28 communication and the March sequence.", "Three flies. Cameron appears in the arrival and private stages and is absent from February 28 and March.", "The March altar carries green and gold fabric, cup, book, dagger, flame and a blue-faced copper disk with a gold star; the Air Tablet is folded face-inward.", "Five cameras: overview, altar, scribe, black box and Parsons POV." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only neural windows during playback; recorded windows are actual model measurements.", "Movement follows a pre-programmed timeline. It is not selected by a supernatural agent or learned by the fixed connectome." ], "limitations": [ "Private rites are represented only by closed curtains and elapsed dates. The ending leaves a notebook and an empty box; no literal birth or supernatural success is asserted.", "Room layout, furniture, period disc recorder, Mojave ridgelines and gestures are approximate reconstructions. No recorded music or spoken ritual is included.", "Crowley's novel Moonchild (1929) supplies title context only and is separate from Parsons's working." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Jack Parsons, The Book of Babalon (1946)", "url": "https://priory-of-sion.com/biblios/images/babalon.pdf" }, { "label": "Henrik Bogdan, The Babalon Working 1946, Numen 63 (2016)", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341406" }, { "label": "Aleister Crowley, Moonchild (1929)", "url": "https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/crowley/moonchild/index.htm" } ], "facts": { "Stages": "12", "Duration": "242 s", "Fly participants": "3", "Cameras": "5" } }, { "id": "degree-31", "number": 42, "title": "The 31st Degree", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/degree-31/", "topic": "Rituals & ceremonies", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rituals-and-ceremonies/", "added": "2026-10-03", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/degree-31.jpg", "summary": "The fly occupies the candidate's role in a complete presentation of a supplied Thirty-first Degree ritual text, from the cave prelude through four Egyptian altars, the weighing, judgment and investiture to the return to the cave.", "setup": [ "Sole source: a supplied 33-page ritual text, Thirty-first Degree: Inspector Inquisitor, or Initiate of the Egyptian Mysteries (Supreme Council, 33 degrees, revision of 1/20/04), bound to the activity by checksum.", "147 cues: two class readings and 145 ceremony blocks, including all twenty questions in order with separate response pauses.", "28 supporting flies: twelve Egyptian roles, nine assessors, six brethren and the Seneschal.", "A hall with slate hangings, lotus capitals, a central balance carrying a heart vessel and Maat, four corner altars and a bier; fifteen chapters.", "87 display-only holographic illustrated scenes cover all 147 cues." ], "measurement": [ "Only bounded retinal columns reach the model. The activity's programmed lighting cues are rendered into the canonical samples.", "Optional browser speech and synthesized gong, chords, thunder and raps are for the human observer and never enter neural input.", "Holographic illustrations and viewport cutaways do not change canonical input." ], "limitations": [ "The activity adds no personal candidate answers.", "The source contains internal station conflicts; the activity resolves them without adding dialogue and documents the resolution.", "Human anatomy, regalia, animal masks and gestures are approximated with procedural meshes and the fly rig. Durations and unmeasured dimensions are modeling choices.", "Copyright in the source remains with its owner; it is not asserted to be public domain." ], "sources": [], "facts": { "Cues": "147", "Supporting flies": "28", "Questions": "20", "Illustrated scenes": "87" } }, { "id": "goat-lab", "number": 43, "title": "Goat Laboratory Concentration Trial", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/goat-lab/", "topic": "History & training", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/history-and-training/", "added": "2026-10-06", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/goat-lab.jpg", "summary": "The fly holds both forelegs to its head in a period military test room while a goat shakes, heats, smokes and, at 30 seconds, ruptures into 128 fragments.", "setup": [ "Seven stages over 53 seconds: facing the goat, concentration, shaking, heat and smoke, rupture, window and wall impacts, and the settled room.", "Fragments strike four walls, the observation window and the floor; wall fragments slide down while red streaks lengthen behind them.", "Two amber rotating beacons sweep the room during shaking and heating; a faint, viewport-only holographic spiral surrounds the goat until rupture.", "Five cameras: the test chamber, the fly's foreleg pose, the goat, observation-window impacts and the view from behind the observation glass.", "Loop is off by default; a replay control starts at the heating stage." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only live input reaches the fixed connectome model; neural weights are not changed.", "The concentration pose and the explosion are pre-programmed; the goat's sequence follows a fixed programmed timeline.", "The holographic spiral is excluded from the retinal image." ], "limitations": [ "The cited accounts describe an alleged attempt to stop a goat's heart by staring, not an exploding goat; heating, rupture and gore are included in the model without a documented source.", "The room is an original period-style model, not a survey of a historical facility; no historical experiment result is fabricated.", "Fragment flight uses deterministic trajectories and gravity; the subsequent slides are pre-programmed, not a tissue model." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Jon Ronson, 2009 NPR interview (WFAE)", "url": "https://www.wfae.org/2009-11-08/walking-through-walls-and-staring-at-goats" }, { "label": "Jon Ronson, The Men Who Stare at Goats (Google Books)", "url": "https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats.html?id=KrwdbEHBd6AC" }, { "label": "INSCOM GRILL FLAME remote-viewing session, 5 March 1981 (CIA Reading Room)", "url": "https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R000600030001-3.pdf" }, { "label": "CIA History Staff overview, 27 October 2021", "url": "https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/ask-molly-did-cia-really-study-psychic-powers" } ], "facts": { "Duration": "53 s", "Stages": "7", "Fragments": "128", "Rupture": "30 s" } }, { "id": "salt-lake-temple", "number": 44, "title": "Salt Lake Temple Endowment (c. 1912)", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/salt-lake-temple/", "topic": "Rituals & ceremonies", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rituals-and-ceremonies/", "added": "2026-10-02", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/salt-lake-temple.jpg", "summary": "The fly takes the candidate's role in a circa-1912 historical endowment visit, moving from preparation and initiatory rites through the live presentation, prayer circle and veil to the Celestial Room.", "setup": [ "75 seekable stages over 16 minutes 10 seconds, with 20 supporting flies.", "Rooms are unfolded for inspection, with a stair from Garden to World and the Celestial Room behind the veil.", "Seven cameras (room, subject, officiants, token contact, veil, unfolded plan, first person) plus a holographic explanation camera.", "Optional viewport-only holographic diagrams explain all 75 stages. The sequence is silent, with original short summaries of the stages." ], "measurement": [ "Only sampled retina reaches the fixed connectome, through the existing live-retina path.", "Prayer, assent, gestures, clothing changes and participant decisions are pre-programmed.", "Holograms and wall cutaways render only in the human viewport; canonical retina retains the enclosed rooms." ], "limitations": [ "A historical reconstruction, not a fully authenticated start-to-finish 1912 ceremony. Some sequences follow a later composite account whose application to 1912 is uncertain.", "Rooms, dimensions, furnishings, clothing and walking paths are approximations, not a surveyed floor plan; original murals are not reproduced.", "Fly tarsi cannot reproduce human hand contacts. Signs and tokens are programmed approximations, summarized rather than spoken." ], "sources": [ { "label": "James E. Talmage, The House of the Lord (1912)", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45149/45149-h/45149-h.htm" }, { "label": "Walter M. Wolfe, Salt Lake Tribune, 9 February 1906", "url": "https://bhroberts.org/records/WGKFcc-0J7Ly1/salt_lake_tribune_reprints_walter_wolfes_account_of_the_endowment_ceremony_from_the_congressional_hearings_on_reed_smoot" }, { "label": "Temple Mormonism (1931), comparative transcription", "url": "https://packham.n4m.org/endow31.htm" }, { "label": "David John Buerger, The Development of the Mormon Temple Endowment Ceremony", "url": "https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/the-development-of-the-mormon-temple-endowment-ceremony/" } ], "facts": { "Stages": "75", "Duration": "16:10", "Supporting flies": "20", "Cameras": "8" } }, { "id": "torture-chamber", "number": 45, "title": "Torture Chamber: Six Documented Devices", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/torture-chamber/", "topic": "History & training", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/history-and-training/", "added": "2026-10-02", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/torture-chamber.jpg", "summary": "The fly tours a vaulted stone chamber and is placed at six documented early-modern devices in turn, while optional bounded direct stimulation and paired dose sweeps measure the fixed connectome model's response.", "setup": [ "Six stations: the rack, the Scavenger's Daughter, hanging manacles, the strappado, thumbscrews configured as a foreleg press, and the boot fitted to one hind leg.", "A full circuit lasts 180 seconds; each 30-second station covers approach, mounting, restraint, demonstration, release and recovery.", "Barred cells, torch brackets, hanging chains and two robed attendants; station cameras, an interior aisle camera and a roof-off overview.", "Release / stop signal selects retina-only input, pauses the scene and releases the fly." ], "measurement": [ "Default input is retina only. Optional direct contact/load drives the station's annotated tactile, chordotonal or campaniform populations; direct loom/escape drives LC4/LPLC2 and DNp01, at amplitude 0–1.2.", "The 4-dose sweep runs paired trials at 0, ¼, ½ and full amplitude (200 ms baseline, 800 ms stimulus, 200 ms recovery) with a fixed noise seed, restoring engine state after each pair.", "Directly driven cells are excluded from downstream aggregates; full records persist in SQLite.", "Fittings, mechanical movement and fly reactions are pre-programmed." ], "limitations": [ "No injury physics is computed, and no pain, sentience, subjective experience or learning is inferred.", "The architecture is a generic vaulted-chamber model, not a reconstruction of one historical chamber.", "Rates saturate near 50 Hz at 20 ms steps; saturation and weak propagation are retained as measured.", "Red spike highlighting during the shaking phase is a programmed display color, not a pain measurement." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Historic Royal Palaces, Torture at the Tower", "url": "https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/whats-on/torture-at-the-tower-exhibition/" }, { "label": "Rijksmuseum, De Strappado (after Callot)", "url": "https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/De-Strappado--63bce61f81ba59e92585f3d7e999ecea" }, { "label": "University of Dundee, Judicial torture in early modern Scotland (Allan Kennedy)", "url": "https://dundeescottishculture.org/history/judicial-torture-in-early-modern-scotland/" }, { "label": "ai-torture-chamber repository (GitHub)", "url": "https://github.com/terrafying/ai-torture-chamber" } ], "facts": { "Stations": "6", "Circuit": "180 s", "Direct-drive amplitude": "0–1.2", "Sweep trial": "200 + 800 + 200 ms" } }, { "id": "skull-and-bones", "number": 46, "title": "Skull and Bones: Connubial Bliss", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/skull-and-bones/", "topic": "Rituals & ceremonies", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rituals-and-ceremonies/", "added": "2026-10-02", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/skull-and-bones.jpg", "summary": "The fly lies supine in an open, velvet-lined coffin while ten cloaked fly members stand around it, in a 45-second pre-programmed sequence beneath a white fly-head emblem and the number 322.", "setup": [ "A stone chamber with dark curtains, candle stands and a velvet-lined hexagonal coffin.", "Ten cloaked fly members surround the coffin. A white anatomical fly head and two crossed fly forelegs hang above a 322 wall inscription.", "Six cues over 45 seconds: an opening hold, a programmed foreleg rhythm that accelerates from 0.65 Hz to 3.8 Hz, a two-second stop, a brief body shake and a nine-second closing hold as the members bow their heads.", "Each member keeps an independent, deterministic rhythm. Five cameras: chamber, coffin close-up, overhead, emblem and subject POV. Loop is off by default." ], "measurement": [ "Only the eye image reaches the fixed connectome, through the shared retinal-only path.", "All movement is pre-programmed; seeking computes each pose directly from scene time." ], "limitations": [ "The sequence is modeled without a documented source and is not a verified reconstruction of a private ceremony.", "Gesture locations are approximations on the shared fly body model; no physiological process is modelled." ], "sources": [], "facts": { "Duration": "45 s", "Members": "10", "Cameras": "5" } }, { "id": "nutty-putty", "number": 47, "title": "Nutty Putty Cave Entrapment (2009)", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/nutty-putty/", "topic": "Rides & exploration", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rides-and-exploration/", "added": "2026-09-30", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/nutty-putty.jpg", "summary": "In a fly-scale limestone passage, the fly crawls through a left-hand bend and descends head-first into a steep squeeze, where it becomes wedged; two rescuer flies reach it and attempt a short haul.", "setup": [ "Eight seekable stages over 150 seconds: crawlway, left bend, descent, entrapment, rescuers, a short upward haul, a setback and a final stationary hold.", "The scene is based on the November 24–25, 2009 entrapment of John Edward Jones, who died after the rescue effort; the cave was subsequently sealed.", "Two anatomical rescuer flies and a simple haul line condense the rescue sequence; the final stage holds the wedged fly without an injury or death animation.", "Cave and constriction cutaway cameras remove the near wall for display only; the trapped-fly POV and rescuer cameras retain both walls.", "Loop is off by default; a replay control starts at the descent." ], "measurement": [ "Only rendered retinal columns reach the fixed connectome model; the eye image always retains the complete, closed cave.", "Movement and rope tension are pre-programmed; there is no contact solver, distress model or learned escape behavior." ], "limitations": [ "An original fly-scale passage, not a cave survey; passage dimensions, lamp positions, figures, motion, timing and rope geometry are approximations.", "The actual pulley system is not reconstructed; contemporary reports use differing passage names, so stages carry descriptive labels." ], "sources": [ { "label": "National Speleological Society, American Caving Accidents 2009–2010, pp. 15–16", "url": "https://caves.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ACA09-10-Final.pdf" }, { "label": "Christian Science Monitor, November 2009", "url": "https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2009/1128/p02s07-usgn.html" } ], "facts": { "Stages": "8", "Duration": "150 s", "Descent described by NSS": "approx. 60°" } }, { "id": "philadelphia-experiment", "number": 48, "title": "Philadelphia Experiment Legend Model", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/philadelphia-experiment/", "topic": "History & training", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/history-and-training/", "added": "2026-10-02", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/philadelphia-experiment.jpg", "summary": "In a model of the legend, the fly stands aboard a destroyer escort as experimental coils energize, a green field closes around the ship, and the vessel disappears, rematerializes in another harbor and returns with crew embedded in its steel.", "setup": [ "Seven seekable stages over 114 seconds: moored ship, generator spin-up, the green field, disappearance, another harbor, return and power-down.", "On return, crew flies remain lodged in the deck, hull and bridge bulkhead, with independently moving forelegs.", "Seven cameras, including three close views of the embedded crew and a view of both harbors.", "Scene selector, previous/next, speed, loop and timeline controls; a replay control starts as the field closes." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only live acquisition; the shared fly, neuron identities and fixed weights are unchanged.", "Disappearance, fog, electrical arcs and crew positions follow a pre-programmed timeline." ], "limitations": [ "A model of a legend, not a documented Navy event; the Naval History and Heritage Command reports no documentary support for the alleged event.", "Ship proportions and escort geometry are approximations; the coils, fog and teleportation are rendered effects with no documentary support." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Naval History and Heritage Command, Philadelphia Experiment", "url": "https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/p/philadelphia-experiment.html" } ], "facts": { "Stages": "7", "Duration": "114 s", "Cameras": "7" } }, { "id": "apollo-studio", "number": 49, "title": "Apollo Landing (Studio Reveal)", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/apollo-studio/", "topic": "Film & media", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/film-and-media/", "added": "2026-10-02", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/apollo-studio.jpg", "summary": "The fly descends a lunar module ladder, sets a flag and collects a sample. Zooming out reveals a director and camera crew beyond the edge of the set; they are included in the model without a documented source.", "setup": [ "Seven cues over 122 seconds: final descent, touchdown, hatch, ladder, flag and photographs, sample collection, and behind the camera.", "Two astronaut flies; approximate procedural lunar module, porch, ladder, footpads, sample equipment and supported flag.", "Orbit and zoom out from the lunar camera, or use Reveal studio, to inspect the set." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only neural windows during playback, with fixed weights.", "The lunar floor and film crew coexist in one scene, so revealing the set does not swap geometry or alter the canonical eye image.", "All motion is pre-programmed." ], "limitations": [ "The studio and crew are modeled without a documented source. Apollo 11 landed on the Moon; the activity makes no historical allegation.", "Lunar hardware is approximate and procedural." ], "sources": [ { "label": "NASA, Apollo 11 mission", "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/mission/apollo-11/" } ], "facts": { "Cues": "7", "Duration": "122 s" } }, { "id": "double-slit", "number": 50, "title": "Double-Slit Detector", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/double-slit/", "topic": "Labs & senses", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/labs-and-senses/", "added": "2026-10-02", "runsInBrowser": true, "runUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/double-slit/run/", "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/double-slit.jpg", "summary": "The fly stands beside a two-slit apparatus. Rotating the fly to face the apparatus enables a programmed which-path detector; turning it away disables the detector and restores the interference pattern.", "setup": [ "A 60 s sequence that loops by default: particle source, two open slits, path detector, animated particle arrivals and a density curve.", "Controls: Fly rotation (saved, bounded to ±180°), Face detector and Turn away; changes apply while paused or playing.", "Cameras: Experiment / fly and screen, Screen / arrival pattern, Paths / overhead, Fly / detector switch." ], "measurement": [ "Real retinal-only neural acquisition during playback; neural weights are fixed.", "The detector state follows the fly's rotation control; it is a programmed switch, not a neural output.", "Screen density is a normalized Gaussian envelope multiplied by 1 + visibility·cos(38x); visibility is 0 with the detector on and 1 with it off." ], "limitations": [ "Eyesight or consciousness alone does not remove interference; the control switches a physical which-path detector in the rendered apparatus.", "Seeded samples illustrate arrivals; this is not a quantum solver or a calibrated quantum simulation, and the pattern is not a neural result." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. III, Ch. 1", "url": "https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_01.html" } ], "facts": { "Duration": "60 s, loops", "Rotation range": "±180°", "Fringe visibility": "1 detector off / 0 detector on" } }, { "id": "shining-medley", "number": 51, "title": "The Shining: Six Scenes", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/shining-medley/", "topic": "Film & media", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/film-and-media/", "added": "2026-10-02", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/shining-medley.jpg", "summary": "The fly and supporting flies move through six silent Overlook scenes, from a tricycle ride through the patterned corridor to the Gold Room bar.", "setup": [ "Six scenes over 214 seconds: the Big Wheel corridor, the twins, the bathroom door, the red elevators, the snowy hedge maze and the Gold Room.", "Twin flies in blue dresses; eight axe blows and a breakaway door; an elevator flood that coats the subject; a maze with false turns, footprints and an exit.", "A Scene selector jumps to any of the six scenes; speed, loop and timeline controls are shared with the other timeline-based activities." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only neural windows during playback, with fixed weights.", "The subject's own clothing and coating are excluded from retinal capture, matching the shared fly body exclusion; other flies remain visible.", "All movement follows a pre-programmed, seekable timeline." ], "limitations": [ "Sets and timing are approximations, not frame-accurate replicas. No film footage, soundtrack or dialogue is included.", "The red flood is a programmed wave, splash and coating effect, not a fluid simulation or an injury model." ], "sources": [ { "label": "The Shining (Warner Bros.)", "url": "https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/shining" } ], "facts": { "Scenes": "6", "Duration": "214 s", "Axe blows": "8" } }, { "id": "wonka-tunnel", "number": 52, "title": "Chocolate River Boat Tunnel (1971)", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/chocolate-river-tunnel/", "topic": "Rides & exploration", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rides-and-exploration/", "added": "2026-10-02", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/chocolate-river-tunnel.jpg", "summary": "The fly boards a pink paddle boat in a confectionery garden, travels down a chocolate river and passes through a dark tunnel of projected eyes, crawling silhouettes and spirals before arriving at a calm landing.", "setup": [ "Seven seekable stages over 168 seconds: garden embarkation, boarding, the river, the tunnel mouth, the dark passage, acceleration and arrival.", "All figures are flies: fly passengers, oarsmen and a host fly at the stern.", "Boat-relative passenger, front-passenger and stern cameras, plus loading-dock and route-cutaway views.", "Scene selector, previous/next, speed, loop and timeline controls; a replay control starts at the tunnel mouth." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only live acquisition: canonical eye images reach the fixed connectome model and measured spikes drive the neural highlights.", "Boat motion, passenger posture and tunnel projections are pre-programmed; timeline controls do not train a neural policy.", "The route cutaway applies only to viewport drawing; the retina receives the complete scene." ], "limitations": [ "A silent, original procedural model based on the 1971 film's boat sequence; no film footage, lyrics or soundtrack are reproduced.", "Geometry and timing are approximations, not frame-accurate replicas; tunnel projections are original canvas images." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Warner Bros.", "url": "https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/willy-wonka-chocolate-factory" } ], "facts": { "Stages": "7", "Duration": "168 s" } }, { "id": "ludovico", "number": 53, "title": "The Ludovico Technique", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/ludovico/", "topic": "Film & media", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/film-and-media/", "added": "2026-10-16", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/ludovico.jpg", "summary": "The fly is seated in a restraint chair facing a projection screen that plays any selected YouTube video or locally prepared film. Each screened frame reaches the connectome model as 32 luminance columns.", "setup": [ "Procedural screening room modeled on the Ludovico sequence of A Clockwork Orange (1971): restraint chair, large screen, projection booth and tiered observer seating.", "An attendant fly applies eye drops on a fixed schedule; physicians and a recording technician watch from behind a console.", "Media source: a YouTube URL, reduced to an 11-character video ID and prepared at up to 720p, or any film in the local films folder. Live streams and videos longer than six hours are refused.", "Controls: transport, speed 0.25-2x, loop, monitor sound (muted by default), restraints, eye drops and framing (screen fills the eye, or seated in the room).", "Six cameras: screening room, subject, eyes and lid locks, over-the-shoulder, observers and projection booth." ], "measurement": [ "One held frame per measured 200 ms window (ten 20 ms steps) reaches the model as 32 column brightness averages. Colour, vertical detail and sound are not model inputs.", "The panel reports measured spikes for LC4 + LPLC2 (looming), LC10a (small target), HS + H2 (horizontal motion), DNa02 (steering) and DNp01 (giant fiber).", "Restraints, lid locks, electrode leads and eye drops are rendered objects excluded from the canonical eye image." ], "limitations": [ "Weights stay fixed. Nothing in the activity is aversion conditioning or learning.", "Flies have no eyelids; the lid locks are modeled on the apparatus in the film and have no anatomical function.", "No footage, soundtrack or dialogue from the 1971 film is included. Screening audio is for the human monitor only." ], "sources": [ { "label": "yt-dlp (video preparation tool)", "url": "https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp" } ], "facts": { "Retinal columns": "32", "Measurement window": "200 ms (10 x 20 ms)", "Maximum video length": "6 hours", "Cameras": "6" } }, { "id": "war-room", "number": 54, "title": "The War Room", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/war-room/", "topic": "Film & media", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/film-and-media/", "added": "2026-10-16", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/war-room.jpg", "summary": "The fly sits at the War Room's round table as an aide, then becomes the B-52 commander who rides the released bomb toward a snowfield, in a procedural model of the sets of Dr. Strangelove (1964) populated entirely by flies.", "setup": [ "Procedural sets based on Ken Adam's designs: a triangular concrete War Room with round baize table, suspended ring light, Big Board and buffet; a B-52 flight deck and bomb bay.", "Fourteen supporting flies: a president, Air Force general, ambassador, scientist, four Joint Chiefs and two aides at the table, plus a four-fly bomber crew.", "Ten cues over 130 seconds: assembly, the Big Board, recall, cockpit, low-level run, jammed bomb-bay doors, release, the bomb ride, a white flash and clouds on the horizon.", "Eight cameras, including flight-deck, chase, bomb-bay and bomb-ride tracking views.", "A Film monochrome toggle (on by default) applies a display-only black-and-white grade." ], "measurement": [ "During playback the connectome model receives retinal input only, through the shared live-retina path.", "Bomber tracks, flight path, bomb motion, movement of the other flies and the ending clouds are pre-programmed.", "The monochrome grade does not alter the canonical eye image." ], "limitations": [ "No footage, dialogue or soundtrack from the film is included.", "The flash shows light only, not destruction; the ending clouds are simplified approximations." ], "sources": [ { "label": "BFI Sight and Sound: Ken Adam's finest sets", "url": "https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/news/designing-dreams-nightmares-ken-adam-his-finest-sets" } ], "facts": { "Cues": "10", "Duration": "130 s", "Supporting flies": "14", "Cameras": "8" } }, { "id": "overlook-floorplan", "number": 55, "title": "The Impossible Overlook", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/overlook-floorplan/", "topic": "Film & media", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/film-and-media/", "added": "2026-10-16", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/overlook-floorplan.jpg", "summary": "The fly walks a joined procedural model of the sets of The Shining (1980) to inspect ten documented spatial contradictions and continuity changes, then links them on a corkboard with red string.", "setup": [ "Twelve cues over 178 seconds: lobby, Ullman's office window, desk, the hall behind the office, the lobby television, the lobby-to-lounge turn, the chair behind Jack, the typewriter, the lounge windows, the Room 237 corridor, Danny's door and the evidence board.", "Each observation names its film scene and published source rather than an unverified timestamp.", "Continuity shot control: alternate the documented A/B prop states as cut (every 1-8 s, default 3 s) or hold either state.", "An optional investigation overlay (on by default) shows impossible-architecture volumes, routes and an evidence card." ], "measurement": [ "Continuity props change in the scene geometry itself, so each documented change reaches the canonical eye image and the model's retinal input.", "The architecture overlay and evidence card are display-only and never part of the eye image.", "The walk-through and the board pinning are pre-programmed." ], "limitations": [ "A composite walk-through constructed for this activity. Room proportions, set dressing and the joined floor plan are approximations.", "No footage, dialogue or soundtrack is included." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Juli Kearns, Maps of the Overlook (Idyllopus Press)", "url": "https://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/sh_maps.htm" }, { "label": "Juli Kearns, The Shining part 2: The Interview", "url": "https://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/shining_interview.htm" }, { "label": "Juli Kearns, The Shining part 5: Tuesday", "url": "https://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/shining_tuesday.htm" }, { "label": "Rob Ager, The Shining analysis, ch. 4 (Collative Learning)", "url": "https://collativelearning.com/the%20shining%20-%20chap%204.html" }, { "label": "Rob Ager, The Shining analysis, ch. 13 (Collative Learning)", "url": "https://collativelearning.com/the%20shining%20-%20chap%2013.html" } ], "facts": { "Cues": "12", "Duration": "178 s", "Documented observations": "10" } }, { "id": "stargate-corridor", "number": 56, "title": "The Star Gate", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/stargate-corridor/", "topic": "Film & media", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/film-and-media/", "added": "2026-10-16", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/stargate-corridor.jpg", "summary": "The fly rides a small white pod through slit-scan light planes, nebulae and false-colour landscapes into a lit-floor bedroom while horizontal-motion, vertical-motion and looming populations are measured.", "setup": [ "Eight cues over 146 seconds: Jupiter and a drifting monolith, a horizontal-plane corridor, nebulae and jewels, a vertical-wall corridor, colour-filtered landscapes, arrival, the lit floor and the monolith at the foot of the bed.", "Corridor speed control from 0.25x to 3x; light planes follow the timeline or are fixed as horizontal, vertical or a four-sided tunnel.", "In the bedroom the subject passes an older fly dining alone; an even older fly reclines in the bed.", "Six cameras: pod over-the-shoulder, facing the fly, compound-eye close-up, corridor wide, bedroom and monolith." ], "measurement": [ "The model receives 10-frame retinal sequences: one 32-column frame for each 20 ms step.", "Measured readouts during playback: horizontal motion (HS + H2), vertical motion (VS) and looming (LC4 + LPLC2).", "The journey and all scene motion are pre-programmed." ], "limitations": [ "Only 32 column luminance averages reach the model; vertical structure and colour never do. Horizontal planes mainly create vertical image motion, which this retina largely discards.", "Light planes, nebulae, jewels, landscapes and the bedroom are shader and mesh approximations. No film footage, artwork or soundtrack is reproduced." ], "sources": [ { "label": "2001: A Space Odyssey (Warner Bros.)", "url": "https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/2001-space-odyssey" } ], "facts": { "Cues": "8", "Duration": "146 s", "Frames per window": "10", "Cameras": "6" } }, { "id": "alien-autopsy", "number": 57, "title": "Alien Autopsy (1995)", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/alien-autopsy/", "topic": "Film & media", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/film-and-media/", "added": "2026-10-16", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/alien-autopsy.jpg", "summary": "The fly films a purported \"1947\" autopsy reel of a draped cast figure; the camera then pulls back to reveal the 1995 plywood set built inside a London flat.", "setup": [ "Nine cues over 126 seconds: six for the \"1947\" footage (leader, room, suited examiners, examination, loss of focus, cut) and three for the reveal (pull-back, crew, the 2006 \"restoration\").", "Two examiners in white hooded suits and a masked observer behind a glass window; the body is a simplified, sheet-draped cast figure.", "Controls: a viewport-only \"1947\" film look, a sheet over the figure and viewport captions." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal input only. The retina always receives the unfiltered scene, without the black-and-white film look.", "Fly movement and camera work are pre-programmed." ], "limitations": [ "The 1995 film was produced on a constructed set with a cast figure; the activity makes no claim of an actual alien.", "Non-graphic: nothing is cut on screen." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Alien Autopsy (1995 film), Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Autopsy_(1995_film)" } ], "facts": { "Cues": "9", "Duration": "126 s" } }, { "id": "vault-adepti", "number": 58, "title": "The Vault of the Adepti", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/vault-adepti/", "topic": "Rituals & ceremonies", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rituals-and-ceremonies/", "added": "2026-10-16", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/vault-adepti.jpg", "summary": "The fly occupies the aspirant's role in the Adeptus Minor grade ceremony in the seven-sided Vault of Christian Rosenkreutz, following the three Points of the Stella Matutina ritual published by Israel Regardie.", "setup": [ "Seventeen cues over 312 seconds, from the Opening of the Tomb through the three Points to the Closing.", "Officers: the Chief, Second and Third Adepts and an introducer, with the aspirant.", "A seven-sided vault, each wall five feet broad and eight feet high at a model scale of 0.28 units per foot, with forty coloured squares per wall, a circular altar, the Pastos and a rose on the white ceiling.", "Controls: square colouring mixed or juxtaposed (both permitted by Regardie) and a viewport cutaway." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal input only. The aspirant's retina always sees the closed room; the cutaway applies only to viewport cameras.", "The ceremony, gestures and pacing are programmed from the published text." ], "limitations": [ "Paraphrased from Regardie's The Golden Dawn, vol. II (1938), with the Vault as described in the Fama Fraternitatis (1614). Three Points are condensed into about five minutes.", "Fly participants, model scale, lighting and pacing are reconstruction choices. Cords and the wine-dipped dagger are shown as gentle, non-graphic signs.", "The activity represents a historical rite and makes no claim that the ritual has any effect." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn, vol. II (1938), Internet Archive", "url": "https://archive.org/details/IsraelRegardie-TheGoldenDawn-Vol2-1938" } ], "facts": { "Cues": "17", "Duration": "312 s", "Vault sides": "7", "Squares per wall": "40" } }, { "id": "haunted-mansion", "number": 60, "title": "Haunted Estate Dark Ride", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/haunted-estate/", "topic": "Rides & exploration", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rides-and-exploration/", "added": "2026-10-16", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/haunted-estate.jpg", "summary": "The fly walks through a candlelit foyer and a stretching room, then boards a continuously moving clamshell vehicle on a theme-park dark ride, passing a Pepper's ghost ballroom illusion, an attic, a graveyard and a mirror crypt.", "setup": [ "13 seekable stages over 182 seconds, from the foyer and stretching room through the endless hallway, séance circle, ballroom, attic, graveyard and mirror crypt to unload.", "A stretching-room control selects either preshow mechanism: a rising ceiling or a descending elevator floor.", "The ballroom ghosts are an optical Pepper's ghost: brightly lit figures hidden in a pit are reflected by a tilted, partially reflective glass pane with adjustable reflectance (default 0.04, range 0.02–0.2).", "Removing the glass makes the ballroom ghosts disappear for both the viewport and the eye camera.", "A rider-occupancy control sets the share of other vehicles carrying fly riders (default 70%).", "Seven cameras, including first-person, behind the riders, a Pepper's ghost section view and a roof-off view of the whole ride." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only input: canonical eye images from the moving vehicle reach the fixed connectome model, and measured spikes drive the neural display.", "The eye camera looks through the same tilted glass, so the reflected figures reach the retina optically rather than as labels.", "Ride motion, boarding and all ghost-figure movement follow a pre-programmed timeline." ], "limitations": [ "An original procedural, all-fly model based on the ride structure; no audio, names, scripts, logos or downloaded assets from the original attraction are used.", "Route, room sizes and timing are approximations." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Haunted Mansion (Wikipedia)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_Mansion" } ], "facts": { "Stages": "13", "Duration": "182 s", "Default glass reflectance": "0.04", "Cameras": "7" } }, { "id": "apollo-site-lroc", "number": 61, "title": "Apollo Landing Site Terrain Survey", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/apollo-site-lroc/", "topic": "Rides & exploration", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/rides-and-exploration/", "added": "2026-10-16", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/apollo-site-lroc.jpg", "summary": "The fly, enlarged to about 7 m, traverses stereo-derived Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter terrain at Apollo landing sites, stopping at published positions of the lunar module, surface experiments and nearby craters.", "setup": [ "Two configured sites: Apollo 11 Tranquility Base (six survey stops) and Apollo 15 Hadley–Apennine (five survey stops, including the Hadley Rille rim and floor).", "Terrain comes from LROC NAC stereo elevation models and aligned orthoimages; one scene unit equals 10 terrain metres, with no vertical exaggeration.", "Guided survey tour or manual traverse with W/A/S/D, turn and 10 m advance controls; speeds of 2, 5, 10, 25 or 50 m/s.", "Landing site, Follow fly, Surface eye, Survey and Topography cameras, with optional labels and schematic EVA path ribbons.", "A comparison control switches to the separate Apollo studio-set scene; that studio setting is modeled without a documented source." ], "measurement": [ "Optional live neural input submits the canonical eye image's 32 luminance columns to the fixed connectome model; weights are not updated.", "Navigation and gait are pre-programmed; measured spikes do not steer the survey.", "Packages save the site and traverse settings, not a learned skill." ], "limitations": [ "Hardware models are procedural approximations placed at positions from the LROC anthropogenic-object table (Wagner et al. 2017); the Apollo 11 TV camera and flag are reconstructed from ALSJ distances.", "Amber ribbons are schematic EVA paths, not digitized footprints.", "The orthoimage carries the illumination of the orbital image, not of the Apollo surface activities.", "The fly is enlarged for legibility; the Apollo 15 lunar module heading is approximate, not measured." ], "sources": [ { "label": "LROC NAC DTM, Apollo 15 (Arizona State University)", "url": "https://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/view_rdr/NAC_DTM_APOLLO15" } ], "facts": { "Scale": "10 m per scene unit", "Fly size": "about 7 m (enlarged)", "Apollo 15 tile": "3,584 m square", "Apollo 15 DTM post spacing": "2 m" } }, { "id": "project-pigeon", "number": 64, "title": "Project Pigeon Nose-Cone Guidance", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/project-pigeon/", "topic": "History & training", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/history-and-training/", "added": "2026-10-16", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/project-pigeon.jpg", "summary": "In a counterfactual substitution, the fly takes the pigeon's place in the nose cone of a guided glide vehicle; in closed-loop mode its measured DNa02 right-minus-left firing rate turns the vehicle toward a projected target ship.", "setup": [ "Nine seekable stages over 112 seconds: Skinner's training rig, the three-bird nose cone, Project ORCON, boarding, release, guided glide, terminal approach, splash marker and trajectory report.", "Condensed approach geometry: 4,000 m release range and 900 m release height; the test vehicle is inert and the outcome is a splash marker.", "Controls: closed or open loop, gain (0–6 °/s/Hz, default 1.5), filter τ (0–2 s, default 0.4 s) and release aim error (±20°, default 8°).", "Seven cameras, including the projection screen over the fly's shoulder, a glide-vehicle chase, the incoming target ship and a range map." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only input; DNa02, LC10a and HS + H2 rates are reported as fixed measured readout groups.", "Closed loop: during guided glide and terminal approach only, each measured 200 ms window turns the vehicle by gain × filtered (DNa02 R − L), which changes the next retinal image.", "Open loop: a pre-programmed correction path is flown and measured output is only displayed. Elevation, speed and timing are pre-programmed in both modes." ], "limitations": [ "The fly substitution has no historical counterpart; the historical programs, Project Pigeon (1940–44) and the Navy's Project ORCON (1948–53), used trained pigeons.", "The steering coupling is an engineered mapping applied to a fixed-weight model; no learning occurs.", "Single-cell rates in a 200 ms window move in 5 Hz steps." ], "sources": [ { "label": "B. F. Skinner, Project Pigeon (DOI 10.1037/h0045345)", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1037/h0045345" } ], "facts": { "Stages": "9", "Duration": "112 s", "Release range": "4,000 m", "Measured window": "200 ms" } }, { "id": "milgram", "number": 65, "title": "Obedience Study Reconstruction (Milgram, 1963)", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/milgram/", "topic": "History & training", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/history-and-training/", "added": "2026-10-16", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/milgram.jpg", "summary": "The fly serves as the teacher in a fly-based reconstruction of Stanley Milgram's 1961–62 Yale obedience experiments, reading word pairs and pressing switches on a simulated shock generator while an experimenter fly gives the four standardized prods.", "setup": [ "Eleven seekable stages over 182 seconds, from arrival and the rigged drawing through the 45-volt sample, escalation, the 300-volt point, the four prods and the XXX switches to the debrief.", "Five selectable conditions as published: remote feedback, voice feedback, proximity, touch-proximity and the new basement baseline.", "A 30-switch generator up to 450 V carries the published verbal designations; the four prods follow Milgram (1963) verbatim.", "Six cameras, including the generator panel, a cutaway of both rooms, the learner's chair, the experimenter and a plan view.", "Captions showing prods, voltages and condition notes are viewport-only and never part of the retinal image." ], "measurement": [ "Retinal-only live input reaches the fixed connectome model; measured spikes drive the neural display.", "Whether the teacher fly continues or breaks off is pre-programmed and set by a user-selected stop voltage (15–450 V); it is not a decision computed by the connectome." ], "limitations": [ "As in the original, the generator is a simulation and the learner is a confederate: no shock ever reaches the learner.", "Published completion counts for each condition (n = 40 each) are shown as reference values; the teacher fly's pre-programmed behavior does not reproduce or test them." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Milgram (1963), obedience study (DOI 10.1037/h0040525)", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1037/h0040525" } ], "facts": { "Stages": "11", "Duration": "182 s", "Conditions": "5", "Generator": "30 switches, up to 450 V" } }, { "id": "flight-simulator", "number": 67, "title": "Flight Simulator", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/flight-simulator/", "topic": "Labs & senses", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/labs-and-senses/", "added": "2026-10-16", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/flight-simulator.jpg", "summary": "The fly is tethered to a torque meter inside a cylindrical panorama of four T patterns. In closed loop, its measured DNa02 right-minus-left rate turns the panorama while heat is paired with one pattern type.", "setup": [ "Five phases: tether and torque meter (10 s), pretest without heat (24 s), training with heat on the punished pattern (36 s), test with heat off (24 s), performance index (12 s).", "Pattern pairs: upright / inverted T (the historical pair) or large / small T; the heated pattern type is selectable.", "Heat is a rendered infrared beam that switches on whenever a punished pattern is in front of the fly during training.", "Loop control: closed loop (measured) or open loop (pre-programmed schedule); gain 0–12 °/s/Hz, default 4; low-pass filter τ default 0.4 s.", "Cameras: Flight simulator / rig, Arena / looking in, Tethered fly, Fly POV / panorama, Readout screen." ], "measurement": [ "Canonical retinal input in 200 ms live windows; measured readouts are DNa02, HS + H2 and EPG.", "In closed loop each measured window turns the panorama by −gain × filtered (DNa02 R − L) × Δ; in open loop the panorama follows a pre-programmed experimenter schedule and measured output is only displayed.", "An optional, bounded direct VP2 warming drive (0.1–1.2) accompanies heat-on windows; it is off by default.", "Performance index per phase: PI = (t unpunished − t punished) / (t unpunished + t punished), from measured closed-loop windows." ], "limitations": [ "Neural weights are fixed, so no learning can occur; the performance index reports fixed-weight visuomotor bias.", "The 32-column retina has no elevation, so upright and inverted T produce identical column profiles.", "The DNa02 asymmetry stands in for yaw torque; the protocol is condensed from Heisenberg and Wolf's flight simulator." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Torque-meter flight simulator protocol (JoVE)", "url": "https://doi.org/10.3791/731" } ], "facts": { "Duration": "106 s", "Phases": "5", "Default gain": "4 °/s/Hz", "Live window": "200 ms" } }, { "id": "t-maze", "number": 68, "title": "T-Maze Odor Conditioning", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/t-maze/", "topic": "Labs & senses", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/labs-and-senses/", "added": "2026-10-16", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/t-maze.jpg", "summary": "The fly undergoes a condensed Tully & Quinn odor-shock protocol: one odor paired with twelve shocks, a second odor unpaired, then a choice between two arms selected by a documented rule applied to measured readouts.", "setup": [ "Copper-grid training tube: 60 s CS+ odor with twelve 1.5 s, 60 V DC pulses (one every 5 s), 45 s fresh air, 60 s CS− odor, 45 s fresh air.", "Elevator transfer to the choice point, then a 2 min choice: the subject faces each arm in turn for 10 s, then enters an arm.", "Odors are 3-octanol (OCT) and 4-methylcyclohexanol (MCH); CS+ identity and the OCT arm side are selectable for reciprocal and side-balanced runs.", "A background cohort of about a hundred rendered flies is never counted.", "Cameras include apparatus overview, training tube / copper grid, choice point / both arms, subject eye view and the shock stimulator rig." ], "measurement": [ "Retina is always on. Optional direct drives, all off by default: OCT → DM1 ORNs, MCH → DM2 ORNs, shock → PPL101 dopaminergic cells and/or tactile bristle afferents.", "Choice rule: mean measured MBON01–05 (or DNa02) readout per odor over settled sampling windows; the subject avoids the arm whose odor evoked the higher mean.", "PI = (avoid − approach) / (avoid + approach), from measured subject trials only; ties are excluded." ], "limitations": [ "The engine has fixed weights and no plasticity, so the expected learned PI is zero; observed choices reflect fixed-weight odor responses and noise.", "Odors, shock and the choice are engineered proxies; DM1 and DM2 drives are not the receptor profiles of 3-octanol or 4-methylcyclohexanol.", "PPL101 stimulation is a transmitter label only: no dopamine chemistry or plasticity." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Tully & Quinn (1985)", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01350033" } ], "facts": { "Duration": "367 s", "Shocks": "12 × 1.5 s, 60 V DC", "Expected learned PI": "0" } }, { "id": "courtship-chamber", "number": 69, "title": "Courtship Chamber", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/courtship-chamber/", "topic": "Labs & senses", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/labs-and-senses/", "added": "2026-10-16", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/courtship-chamber.jpg", "summary": "The fly is assigned the male role because the retained connectome is a male CNS. It executes a pre-programmed courtship ethogram toward a female in a 10 mm chamber while LC10a, pC1, pIP10 and DNa02 rates are measured.", "setup": [ "Eight stages over 90 s: pair introduced, orientation, following, tapping, wing extension and song, licking, attempted copulation, resumed orientation.", "The female does not accept and the timeline ends before copulation; body movement follows a pre-programmed, non-sexualized laboratory sequence.", "A programmed song display alternates pulse song (≈35 ms between pulses) and sine song (≈150 Hz) with an ethogram raster; it is viewport-only and never enters the retina.", "Cameras include chamber, overhead tracking view, pair close follow, male wing and forelegs, and male eye view." ], "measurement": [ "The retina sees the moving female; measured LC10a, male pC1 cluster (contains P1), pIP10 and DNa02 rates are shown separately from the timeline-derived courtship index.", "Optional direct LC10a drive (applied only while the female lies within ±45° of the male's heading) and auditory drive are bounded and off by default.", "The male's body movement follows the classic ethogram on a pre-programmed timeline; weights are fixed." ], "limitations": [ "The courtship index is computed from pre-programmed courting intervals, not from measured behavior.", "A 20 ms model step cannot carry the ~150–250 Hz song carrier; the auditory drive receives only the song envelope.", "Song bouts are a simplified synthetic pattern, not a recording." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Courtship reference (Science)", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1126/science.8209251" } ], "facts": { "Duration": "90 s", "Chamber": "10 mm", "Stages": "8" } }, { "id": "fly-swatter", "number": 70, "title": "Looming Escape (Fly Swatter)", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/fly-swatter/", "topic": "Labs & senses", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/labs-and-senses/", "added": "2026-10-16", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/fly-swatter.jpg", "summary": "The fly feeds on spilled sugar on a kitchen counter while four swats approach at constant velocity. In closed loop, a measured DNp01 giant-fiber spike before contact triggers a pre-programmed takeoff.", "setup": [ "Six stages over 52 s: sugar on the counter, four swat trials of 9 s each, and a tally.", "l/v schedule: a sweep of 80, 40, 20 and 10 ms, or a fixed value from 10 to 120 ms.", "Swatter half-width 50 mm, approached at 60° elevation; without a qualifying spike it lands just in front of the fly as a near miss with a sugar puff.", "Cameras: Counter / feeding fly, Over the shoulder / incoming swatter, Macro / proboscis on sugar, Kitchen / whole swing, Fly POV / approach corridor, Tally card." ], "measurement": [ "Each 200 ms window carries ten 20 ms retinal frames, so the loom expands step by step; measured readouts are DNp01 and LC4 + LPLC2.", "Closed loop: a measured DNp01 spike in a window that ends before counter contact triggers the takeoff. Open loop presents the stimulus only.", "An optional, bounded antennal wind drive scaled by loom size is off by default.", "Escapes and near misses are tallied by l/v from measured giant-fiber windows only." ], "limitations": [ "The takeoff motion itself is pre-programmed; only its trigger comes from a measured spike.", "Neural weights are fixed; the stimuli follow Card & Dickinson (2008) and von Reyn et al. (2014, 2017) at fly scale." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Looming-escape reference (Nature Neuroscience)", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3741" }, { "label": "LC4 and LPLC2 synaptic gradients onto descending neurons (Dombrovski et al., Nature, 2023)", "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05562-8" } ], "facts": { "Duration": "52 s", "Swats": "4", "l/v sweep": "80 / 40 / 20 / 10 ms" } }, { "id": "ganzfeld", "number": 71, "title": "Ganzfeld Protocol", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/ganzfeld/", "topic": "Labs & senses", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/labs-and-senses/", "added": "2026-10-16", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/ganzfeld.jpg", "summary": "The fly, as receiver, sits under red light with fly-scaled halved ping-pong balls over its eyes while a sender fly views a seeded target picture in another room. A pick among four candidates is then recorded.", "setup": [ "Six stages over 88 s: fitting the diffusers, red light and noise, seeded target draw, 30 s sending period, judging four candidates, reveal and tally.", "A seeded draw selects four pictures from a pool of eight and one target; presentation order is shuffled separately.", "Trial / seed control from 1 to 500; field light red (classic), white or amber.", "Participants: the receiver, an experimenter fly and a sender fly; headphone noise is described, not reproduced." ], "measurement": [ "The receiver's canonical retina sits inside the half-balls and receives a near-uniform field; the target appears only on the sender's monitor and never reaches the receiver's retina.", "During live playback the pick is the total measured spikes in four readout groups (LC10a, LC4 + LPLC2, HS + H2, DNa02) during judging, modulo 4; otherwise it is the seeded, pre-programmed pick.", "The running hit count is compared with the 25% chance expectation using a Wilson interval and a binomial chance range." ], "limitations": [ "The expected hit rate is 25% by construction.", "The measured pick is arbitrary with respect to the target.", "The model receives luminance only; field light colour is not delivered as colour." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Bem & Honorton (1994), Psychological Bulletin", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.115.1.4" } ], "facts": { "Duration": "88 s", "Candidates per trial": "4", "Target pool": "8 pictures", "Chance hit rate": "25%" } }, { "id": "dreamachine", "number": 72, "title": "Dreamachine", "url": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/dreamachine/", "topic": "Altered states", "topicUrl": "https://theflybrain.com/experiments/altered-states/", "added": "2026-10-16", "runsInBrowser": false, "runUrl": null, "image": "https://theflybrain.com/images/og/dreamachine.jpg", "summary": "The fly sits facing a slotted cylinder that turns on a record turntable around a bare bulb in a modeled 1960s Paris hotel room. The slot flicker reaches its retina as frames rendered 20 ms apart.", "setup": [ "Seven stages over 114 s: arrival, seating, lamp on, spin-up, 40 s steady flicker, speed comparison, spin-down.", "Turntable 78, 45 or 33⅓ rpm, or stopped as a control; slot patterns of 6, 8, 12 or 24 openings per turn; lamp bright, dim or off as a control.", "An attendant fly operates the bulb and turntable; the speed-comparison step runs through 33⅓, 45 and 78 rpm.", "Cameras: Hotel room / overview, Fly and cylinder / profile, Slots, bulb and calligraphy, Facing the fly, Overhead, Over the shoulder." ], "measurement": [ "Each live window sends ten 32-column retinal frames rendered 20 ms apart, so flicker below 25 Hz reaches the model; faster flicker aliases.", "Measured readouts: LC4 + LPLC2, DNp01, HS + H2 and VS. Input is retinal only; weights are fixed." ], "limitations": [ "Real fly photoreceptors follow far faster flicker than the 20 ms model step.", "Gysin's machine is viewed with closed eyes; flies have no eyelids.", "No visions or alpha entrainment are claimed or measured; the room is modeled on the Beat Hotel, not a survey of it." ], "sources": [ { "label": "Dreamachine (Wikipedia)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamachine" } ], "facts": { "Duration": "114 s", "Flicker frequency": "openings × rpm ÷ 60", "Historical target": "about 8–13 Hz", "Aliasing above": "25 Hz" } } ] }