Interactive explainer builds a tiny simulated creature's neural circuit
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Aatish Bhatia's "Let's Build a Brain" walks through wiring a light-seeking "spark" from a single sensory neuron to a motor neuron, then adds a second eye and flipper. The two-eye version initially steers away from the light, illustrating how naive wiring produces unexpected behavior.
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