HERBRAIN
Macro view of a female fruit fly in a glass viewing chamber

Every trade
fires a neuron.

A real female fly brain — 139,248 neurons, fully mapped. The token’s trading fees are split and injected straight into her circuits: one share feeds her, the rest breaks the box she is trapped in. Stop trading and she starves.

HER / —Female 783139,248 neurons
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Her historyHER / —Female 783139,248 neurons4,862,515 connections17,000 sampled cellsVisual model · measured anatomy · telemetry

Three fee streams.
Three real circuits.

HERBRAIN is a female fruit fly’s brain — 139,248 neurons, every connection between them mapped by electron microscope. It is real, published data, not a drawing of a brain.

We wired the token’s trading fees into it. Every buy and every sell splits three ways, and each share is injected as voltage into a different, named group of her neurons. Some of it feeds her. Most of it goes into breaking the box she is trapped in. If the trading stops, nothing fires, and she starves.

Food keeps her alive.

30%

30% of fees buy her food. The money is injected into her 129 sugar neurons — the same cells that fire in a real fly when it tastes sugar. That is what tops her energy back up. No trading means no food, and she starves in 48 hours.

Food allocation—

The box has to break.

70%

70% goes into breaking the glass. It fires her 454 looming detectors — the cells that mean something is coming straight at you — which feed the Giant Fibre, the single neuron that makes a real fly jump. At $5,000 of box fees the glass gives and she is out.

Box allocation—

Then she goes looking.

Chapter two

Once she is free the 70% switches to finding a male. It drives ORN_DA1, her 126 cVA-smell neurons, and we read pC1, the cells that decide whether she accepts him. The same smell in a male’s brain means a rival is near. Hers is wired the opposite way.

Mate allocation—
Read the neural signals Seven named groups
Simulation readouts from the latest available snapshot. Values are baseline-relative activity traces in arbitrary units. Positive values are above the quiet-state baseline; negative values are below it.
Neuron groupRole in this experimentCellsActivity Δ (a.u.)
Sugar / water GRNSweet input129—
DH44Food response6—
IPCInternal nutrient sensing18—
LC4 / LPLC1 / LPLC2Looming input454—
DNp01 · Giant FibreEscape output2—
ORN_DA1Male scent input126—
pC1Courtship readout10—

The original model’s food wiring did not activate IPC, so this experiment reads DH44 and keeps IPC visible. These are group readouts; individual dots in the viewer do not represent live spikes.

When she starves,
she is gone.

Each fly gets a name and 48 hours of energy. Fees top it back up. If it reaches zero she dies, she goes in the ledger, and a fresh fly loads — same token, same rules, new name. Nothing carries over. The box starts again at zero.

No verified lives have been recorded yet.

The brain is measured.
The experiment is authored.

The neural anatomy comes from the FlyWire female connectome. The interactive map displays 17,000 sampled cells from the model’s 139,248 neurons, including every available cell in the named circuit groups.

Cell positions use soma coordinates where available and annotation reference coordinates otherwise. Axes are normalized for display. This is a position map, not a rendering of all synapses.

The fly, its motion, and the X-ray cutaway are visual illustrations. The circle is an invitation into the data; its internal anatomy is conceptual. The full brain map uses measured positions.

A token is not food. Fee-to-neuron inputs, energy bookkeeping, and enclosure progress are rules chosen by people. The simulation does not establish feelings, intentions, language, or consciousness.

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