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Eon CEO @michaelandregg reveals how they scanned a fruit fly brain by destroying it layer by layer while capturing its information, the same gruesome process Pantheon viewers will recognize: "Janelia used electron microscopes. They did block face SEM. Image the surface, ablate the top with an ion mill, image again, constantly ablating. It's a destructive approach." "Pantheon viewers will recognize the gruesome ablating-while-imaging, capturing the pattern of information while the matter is…
michaelandregg@michaelandreggMar 8
We've uploaded a fruit fly. We took the @FlyWireNews connectome of the fruit fly brain, applied a simple neuron model (@Philip_Shiu Nature 2024) and used it to control a MuJoCo physics-simulated body, closing the loop from neural activation to action. A few things I want to say about what this means and where we're going at @eonsys. 🧵
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