this is straight up the creepiest thing i’ve seen
they wired 166,700 reconstructed fruit fly neurons into this android just to test movement, then the thing started doing something nobody asked for
at first it was basic feedback. camera sees motion → fly network reacts → motors move. nothing crazy
then it started turning toward people before they touched it
the team thought it was sensor noise, so they killed the scripted behavior and ran the body again with only the fly network connected
same thing
head tracks a person across the room
hand closes when someone gets too close
body shifts when the lights go out
the weirdest part came later
they left the android alone for 17 minutes and the neural activity never settled. the fly network kept firing even with almost no new input, like it was running something internally
166,700 neurons is nothing next to a human brain
but nobody told those neurons they were inside a human-shaped body either
they wanted to see if a fly brain could control an android
now they’re trying to figure out why it keeps looking back