THIS IS STRAIGHT UP THE CREEPIEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN they wired 166,700 reconstructed fruit fly neurons into this android just to see if it could move, and then it started doing things nobody programmed at first it was basic stuff. camera sees motion → fly network reacts → motors move. nothing special then it started turning toward people before they even reached it the team figured it was a bad sensor, so they stripped out every scripted behavior and ran the body again with only the fly network connected it did it again head tracks a person across the room hand closes when someone leans in too close body flinches when the lights go out the strangest part came later they left it alone in the room for 17 minutes and the activity never settled. the fly network kept firing with almost nothing coming in, like it was working on something by itself 166,700 neurons is nothing compared to a human brain but nobody told those neurons they'd ended up in a human-shaped body the whole point was to see if a fly brain could drive an android now they're trying to work out why it keeps looking back