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Are you sure? My understanding is that this connectome has been rather unfruitful in explaining its behavior.



We can't explain everything completely right now. However, for example, we can model behaviors like klinotaxis and movement toward chemical gradients using only 10 neurons [0]! I find it completely fascinating — we don't have the full picture, but we can isolate different behaviors and examine how the neurons contribute to that action.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3_BjL20Roc




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