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I held a séance with a dead fly's simulated brain. She told me to text my ex.

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This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine This week I ran a simulation of a dead fruit fly's brain on my laptop and asked her, "Do you forgive us for slicing you?" She didn't feed. She didn't stay still. She wiped her antennae. The fly was real…

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  1. 2026-10-30 12:09 · DEV Community — AI
    I held a séance with a dead fly's simulated brain. She told me to text my ex.

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