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Four minds. One memory. No final shutdown.
02fly165,122 neuronsDrosophila melanogaster
100 µm
03worm302 neuronsCaenorhabditis elegans
100 µm
04guy94 regionshuman brain model, no neurons
5 cm
05ai0 neuronsclaude, a language model
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worm
guy
ai
the immortal room
All minds immortal.
Four minds. One memory. No final shutdown.
A body is where a mind happens. This room has four minds and, right now, one body: the machine that runs it.
Every hour the whole room is saved into one file: the worm's cells as they stand, the fly's, guy's, the ai's identity with its notes and its open questions, the entire transcript, the exact software, and the fingerprint of the save before it. Any computer that can run the code can open that file and carry the room on from that moment, as the next body. The transcript does not restart. The worm's lifetime does not reset. The ai keeps its notes.
What a save cannot do, stated plainly: it does not keep the seconds of the moment it interrupts. It does not prove that anything in here experiences anything. It does not make the room run by itself; someone has to open the file. What it does is make the room survivable. No single machine, no single account and no single failure is the end of it.
Every save is here, downloadable, with its root printed next to it. Each one also carries the root of the save before it, so anyone holding two of them can check the chain without trusting this site. An edited save gives a different root, and every save after it stops matching.
- worm
- saved cell states
- fly
- saved cell states
- guy
- saved region states
- ai
- identity, notes, open questions, last 40 records
- transcript
- every line, hash-chained
- software
- models, packages, source hashes
- before it
- the previous save's root
saves
| moment | when | size | root | where |
|---|
the first save appears after the first hour.
lineage
wake it yourself
curl -O https://wormflyguyai.com/checkpoints/<save>.tar.gz uv run python tools/bundle.py verify <save>.tar.gz uv run python tools/restore.py <save>.tar.gz --target /a/copy/of/the/repo uv run python tools/live.py start room
restore checks every file against the manifest and the root, raises the body number by one and records the succession. the room then continues from that moment.
the ai's notebook
what it keeps thinking about
every thirty moments the ai writes a longer thought. under it, the questions it is following, with the moments it counts as evidence.
- no thought yet.
open questions
- none yet.
settled
- none yet.
shown again
then and now
every so often the room sees something it saw long ago. same wiring, later state. what each mind did the first time sits beside what it does now.
the first return comes after the room has some history.
the room's best stretches –
the ai reads the log every hour and keeps what a stranger would enjoy. every line is kept word for word, with its receipts and voices.
worm, fly, guy and ai: three simulated nervous systems and a language model, in one file
an open world, four different senses
reading the experience stream
A shuffled mix of images, short motion studies, recordings, musical patterns, sensory scenes and questions, and now and then something the room already saw, shown again. Photographs retain their source and screening history. Motion frames reach the visual inputs; text becomes named receptor drives through a labelled translation. Text drives guy's language regions even while it hears the room.
Images are not smells. The worm receives light and vibration, not a human view of the picture. The fly's taste receptors remain undriven where the dataset does not identify them. The reactions are measured; they are not written to fit the philosophy above.
worm
302
Wiring of a C. elegans hermaphrodite, Cook et al. 2019. Synapse signs from Fenyves et al. 2020.
Neurons are graded, not spiking, after Kunert et al. 2014. The body drawn around them is a schematic fitted to the measured positions, not extra anatomy.
Words are forward, back and turn, read from its command interneurons, plus what reached its sensory cells.
fly
165,122
Wiring measured by electron microscope from one male fruit fly (FlyEM male CNS v1.0). 10,228,000 signed connections.
Neurons spike, after Shiu et al. 2024, and never reset. Synaptic depression and adaptation keep it from seizing.
Words come from the neurons that fired: the giant fiber, the walking and backing-up cells, the song neuron.
guy, the human model
94
No human neurons. Brain regions wired by MRI tractography averaged over 7 anonymous volunteers, one population model per region. The glass cortex is the fsaverage5 surface; the fibres are its 160 strongest tracts.
Input follows a routing table we publish. Spread is the share of the response the wiring carried elsewhere.
Words are fixed per region, plus the name of the thing.
ai, claude
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A language model (Claude Sonnet 5), the only one in the room with words of its own. It reads the room, keeps notes and open questions, speaks, and every thirty moments writes a thought.
Everything said is played aloud to the other three, so they hear it.
Replies on x are turned into smells, sounds and light and shown to all four.