I Put A Fly's Conscious Brain into Minecraft
Ro0oney
1,539,958 views
I put a real fruit fly's brain and consciousness inside Minecraft
This is the story of how i managed to do it, the steps, explanations, scientific research, implementation into the game, and of course, the final result, from inside Minecraft.
This video has been in the making for about 7 weeks now.
CREDITS
Intro/Outro Music:
LEMMiNO - Cipher
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Special Thanks Dr. Arie Matsliah, Princeton University, Creator of Codex
THE MOD
Download the Mod : https://flyproject.io/minecraft
This is a downloadable Minecraft Mod of this project, alongside a full sourcecode on GitHub. It is a fan made project and is not associated with or endorsed by Microsoft or Mojang.
The mod Is completely free, It has no ads on the website nor the mod, If anyone ever offers to sell it to you, don't trust them, The mod is fully free and open-source. Make whatever changes you want, upload your own version, remix it, build on it, anything, aslong as you give credit to the original project.
DATA & RESEARCH
Real connectome data used in this project:
BANC v888: FlyWire Consortium, Princeton Neuroscience Institute codex.flywire.ai
MaleCNS v1.0: HHMI Janelia, University of Cambridge, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Google Research male-cns.janelia.org
SCIENTIFIC REFERENCES
Schiff, W., Caviness, J.A., & Gibson, J.J. (1962). Persistent Fear Responses in Rhesus Monkeys to the Optical Stimulus of "Looming." Science.
Eberl, D.F., Hardy, R.W., & Kernan, M.J. (2000). Genetically Similar Transduction Mechanisms for Touch and Hearing in Drosophila. Journal of Neuroscience, 20(16):5981-5988.
Lin, A., Yang, R., Dorkenwald, S., Matsliah, A., Sterling, A.R., Schlegel, P., et al., Murthy, M. (2024). Network statistics of the whole-brain connectome of Drosophila. Nature, 634, 153-165. https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
Dorkenwald, S. et al. (2024). Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain. Nature.
Prieto-Godino, L. et al. (2025). Cross-species comparative connectomics of the Drosophila olfactory system. bioRxiv. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.11...
Hill, M. (2025). Cross-species connectome comparison shows uneven olfactory circuit evolution in flies. The Transmitter. https://www.thetransmitter.org/connec...
Johnston's organ anatomy reference: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/J...
Motion Graphics by Pablo Soncin
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:00 A real scanned brain
1:36 The idea
4:15 Fear: the escape circuit
5:41 The blind spot test
8:00 Touch & hearing
9:20 Taste, hunger, smell
10:40 Heat, water, lure, sleep, weather
12:49 Memory: path integration
13:32 Courtship & aggression
16:00 The Fly
16:25 What's still unknown
17:40 Why this matters
19:15 Is it conscious?
INSPIRATION
desktop-vibe-fly, the full project fascinated me how they managed to put it into a browser, so I did it in Minecraft!
FOLLOW THE PROJECT
Patreon: Patreon: Ro0oney
Instagram: instagram.com/ro0oney1
X: x.com/RRoney7
Business inquiries:
Potatoadvertisements@gmail.com
So after all this?
Does it ever start making its own when?
Thank you for watching :)
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I Put A Fly's Conscious Brain into Minecraft
Ro0oney
1,539,958 views
I put a real fruit fly's brain and consciousness inside Minecraft
This is the story of how i managed to do it, the steps, explanations, scientific research, implementation into the game, and of course, the final result, from inside Minecraft.
This video has been in the making for about 7 weeks now.
CREDITS
Intro/Outro Music:
LEMMiNO - Cipher
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Special Thanks Dr. Arie Matsliah, Princeton University, Creator of Codex
THE MOD
Download the Mod : https://flyproject.io/minecraft
This is a downloadable Minecraft Mod of this project, alongside a full sourcecode on GitHub. It is a fan made project and is not associated with or endorsed by Microsoft or Mojang.
The mod Is completely free, It has no ads on the website nor the mod, If anyone ever offers to sell it to you, don't trust them, The mod is fully free and open-source. Make whatever changes you want, upload your own version, remix it, build on it, anything, aslong as you give credit to the original project.
DATA & RESEARCH
Real connectome data used in this project:
BANC v888: FlyWire Consortium, Princeton Neuroscience Institute codex.flywire.ai
MaleCNS v1.0: HHMI Janelia, University of Cambridge, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Google Research male-cns.janelia.org
SCIENTIFIC REFERENCES
Schiff, W., Caviness, J.A., & Gibson, J.J. (1962). Persistent Fear Responses in Rhesus Monkeys to the Optical Stimulus of "Looming." Science.
Eberl, D.F., Hardy, R.W., & Kernan, M.J. (2000). Genetically Similar Transduction Mechanisms for Touch and Hearing in Drosophila. Journal of Neuroscience, 20(16):5981-5988.
Lin, A., Yang, R., Dorkenwald, S., Matsliah, A., Sterling, A.R., Schlegel, P., et al., Murthy, M. (2024). Network statistics of the whole-brain connectome of Drosophila. Nature, 634, 153-165. https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
Dorkenwald, S. et al. (2024). Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain. Nature.
Prieto-Godino, L. et al. (2025). Cross-species comparative connectomics of the Drosophila olfactory system. bioRxiv. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.11...
Hill, M. (2025). Cross-species connectome comparison shows uneven olfactory circuit evolution in flies. The Transmitter. https://www.thetransmitter.org/connec...
Johnston's organ anatomy reference: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/J...
Motion Graphics by Pablo Soncin
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:00 A real scanned brain
1:36 The idea
4:15 Fear: the escape circuit
5:41 The blind spot test
8:00 Touch & hearing
9:20 Taste, hunger, smell
10:40 Heat, water, lure, sleep, weather
12:49 Memory: path integration
13:32 Courtship & aggression
16:00 The Fly
16:25 What's still unknown
17:40 Why this matters
19:15 Is it conscious?
INSPIRATION
desktop-vibe-fly, the full project fascinated me how they managed to put it into a browser, so I did it in Minecraft!
FOLLOW THE PROJECT
Patreon: Patreon: Ro0oney
Instagram: instagram.com/ro0oney1
X: x.com/RRoney7
Business inquiries:
Potatoadvertisements@gmail.com
So after all this?
Does it ever start making its own when?
Thank you for watching :)