MN9 · Feeding motor neuron · Season record ATS
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NFL picks from a simulated fruit fly brain. The fly's brain (139,000 neurons from the FlyWire connectome) "tasted" each team, spread included. Whichever team made its feeding neuron fire harder is the fly's pick. Every game is picked at 4:00am Pacific on game day. The neuroscience is real. The football part is nonsense.

Against the spreadStraight up

A replay of the real 1-second simulation, slowed down 10×. Every faint dot is one of the fly's 139,248 neurons at its actual position in the FlyWire connectome, seen from the front. The ones that light up fired when the fly tasted that team.

Sugar taste neurons (input)Neurons that firedMN9 feeding motor neurons