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The Shiu brain model

By Philip K. Shiu & collaborators

The 2024 computational study behind many of the scene’s simplified whole-brain spiking simulations.

FlyWireFoundationScientific paper

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The study modeled sensorimotor circuits and experimentally tested feeding and grooming predictions. That validation does not automatically transfer to downstream game, trading, or body-control adaptations.

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