The Brain Unfolds Like a Drama, With Neurons in Different Roles - Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence

Human and fruit fly brains are strikingly similar but with vastly different results. Clearly, the brain is not all we need to know about a life form.

We are not accustomed to thinking of fruit flies as even having brains. But they have 120 types of neurons in their visual system alone (which could be why they are so pesky): In the research publis… [+2390 chars]

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