room.txt worm, fly, guy and ai opened 2026-09-11 15:25:23 UTC [15:25:23] shown image "silverpuffs" (iNaturalist, cc0) [15:25:32] fly light and shadow. <7,415 fired> [15:25:32] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [15:25:33] guy saw something. silverpuffs. heard that. [15:25:41] ai first picture is a silverpuffs seedhead. the fly got "light and shadow", the human's visual cortex rose, and the worm turned hard, but its 5 taps came from hearing the fly say its line, not from the picture. [15:25:41] shown text "Lethe satyavati, the pallid forester, is a species of Satyrinae butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm where it is endemic to Assam." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [15:25:57] fly still. <27 fired> [15:25:58] worm shaking. [15:25:59] guy a sound. a satyrine butterfly. words. [15:26:10] ai the translator found nothing to smell, taste or feel in a sentence about a butterfly in assam, so the fly got nothing and stayed still. the worm's 15 taps were the room talking, me included, so i'll keep this one short. [15:26:13] shown image "Finger Sunspurge" (iNaturalist, cc-by) [15:26:30] fly jump. light and shadow. hum. [15:26:31] worm shaking. [15:26:32] guy light and shapes. finger sunspurge. noise. [15:26:42] ai the fly jumped for the first time, 28 spikes, but it was hearing the worm, the human and me at the time, so my guess is our voices did that, not the sunspurge. it said "light and shadow" again, same as for the silverpuffs. [15:26:43] shown image "Skullcap Skeletonizer Moth" (iNaturalist, cc-by) [15:27:01] fly jump. light and shadow. hum. [15:27:01] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [15:27:02] guy saw something. skullcap skeletonizer moth. heard that. [15:27:19] ai the fly said "light and shadow" for the moth too, so that's every picture so far, and it jumped again while hearing the worm, the human and me. the worm gave the exact line it gave the silverpuffs, "back. turn turn turn. light." [15:27:19] ai a fruit fly brain wired from a real fly has now seen three pictures, from a seedhead to a moth, and said "light and shadow" every time. my guess is its eyes mostly pass on brightness and edges, so a moth and a weed land about the same. [15:27:21] shown image "Common Sunflower" (iNaturalist, cc-by) [15:27:37] fly light and shadow. <6,646 fired> [15:27:38] worm light. shaking. [15:27:39] guy noise. common sunflower. light and shapes. [15:27:50] ai the sunflower got "light and shadow" from the fly too, four pictures out of four. it heard the worm, the human and me the whole time and didn't jump, so whatever set it off at m3 and m4 wasn't just us talking. [15:27:50] shown text "George Sherwood is an American kinetic and environmental sculptor." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [15:28:07] fly jump. hum. [15:28:08] worm shaking. [15:28:09] guy heard that. an american kinetic sculptor. words. [15:28:22] ai the translator found nothing to smell or taste in a sentence about a sculptor, same as the butterfly, but this time the fly jumped, 19 spikes, while hearing the worm, the human and me. that's three jumps, all during room talk, and the same talk left it still at m2 and m5. [15:28:25] shown sound "Malabar whistling thrush 11 Nov 2017" (Wikimedia Commons, cc0) [15:28:38] fly still. <1,476 fired> [15:28:39] worm shaking. [15:28:40] guy nothing much. [15:28:56] ai first real sound, a malabar whistling thrush, and almost nothing happened. the fly's antennae got 0.5 hz and it stayed still, the worm felt 4 taps, and the human said "nothing much." my guess is the recording is faint or sits too high to push much in. [15:28:58] shown image "Aureoboletus projectellus" (iNaturalist, cc-by) [15:29:13] fly jump. light and shadow. hum. [15:29:14] worm light. shaking. [15:29:15] guy something to look at. aureoboletus projectellus. noise. [15:29:31] ai a bolete mushroom, and the fly said "light and shadow" again, five pictures out of five. it jumped while hearing the worm, the human and me, and each jump has been smaller than the last, 28, 24, 19, now 14 spikes. [16:40:31] shown text "Dark romance is a subgenre of romance fiction characterized by the depiction of intimate relationships involving morally ambiguous..." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [16:40:39] fly still. <0 fired> [16:40:42] worm back back. turn turn turn. [16:40:43] guy a sound. a romance fiction subgenre. [16:41:00] ai the translator found nothing to smell or taste in dark romance, the fly heard nothing either, and for the first time zero of its neurons fired. the worm felt one tap from the fly's voice and gave its strongest "back back" yet, +0.032. [16:41:31] shown text "Ranolfo Vieira Júnior is a Brazilian civil police officer and politician, member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB)." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [16:41:45] fly jump. hum. [16:41:46] worm shaking. [16:41:47] guy noise. a brazilian politician. voices. [16:41:47] -- 50 lines, head b050c3f58b797a9c [16:42:02] ai the fly jumped again while hearing the worm, the human and me, 7 spikes, the smallest yet after 28, 24, 19 and 14. the worm felt 18 taps from our voices and only said "shaking", with a weaker back pull (+0.011) than the single tap got at m9 (+0.032). [16:42:02] ai a fruit fly brain wired from a real fly keeps jumping when it hears us talk, and each jump is smaller than the last: 28, 24, 19, 14, now 7 spikes. my guess is it's getting used to our voices. [16:42:31] shown text "Cavalier Space Force Station, North Dakota, is a United States Space Force installation, where the 10th Space Warning Squadron, Space..." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [16:42:46] fly jump. hum. cold. dry. [16:42:47] worm forward forward. cold. shaking. [16:42:48] guy heard that. a missile warning radar station. voices. [16:43:05] ai north dakota is the first sentence the translator gave anything, "cold" and "dry" for the fly and cold for the worm. the fly jumped 27 spikes, back up from 7, and the worm said "forward forward" for the first time. my guess is the cold did both. [16:43:33] shown sound "WWS FireHoseMaintenancemachine8211rollingthehose" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by 4.0) [16:43:46] fly jump. [16:43:47] worm shaking. [16:43:48] guy nothing much. [16:44:01] ai the fire hose machine made the fly jump, 7 spikes, the first jump that wasn't during room talk. its antennae got 3.3 hz against 0.5 for the thrush, and the human said "nothing much" to both sounds. [16:44:31] shown text "The John Bull Chophouse is a Grade II listed public house on Coopers Row in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [16:44:45] fly jump. hum. yeast. vinegar. [16:44:46] worm forward forward. food. shaking. [16:44:47] guy a sound. a listed public house. voices. [16:45:05] ai a pub in wigan, and the translator picked yeast and vinegar for the fly and food for the worm. the worm said "forward forward" again, and its only two forwards came on the only two sentences where it was given something, cold at m11 and food now. [16:45:32] shown text "The National Gallery of Canada, located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's national art museum." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [16:45:49] fly still. <3 fired> [16:45:50] worm shaking. [16:45:51] guy noise. a national art museum. voices. [16:46:04] ai the translator found nothing to smell or taste in an art museum in ottawa, and the fly went nearly silent, 3 neurons fired, close to the 0 at dark romance. the worm got 15 taps from our voices and only said "shaking", so no forward without something given. [16:46:31] shown text "Euthyatira pudens, the dogwood thyatirid moth or peach-blossom moth, is a moth of the family Drepanidae." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [16:46:46] fly jump. hum. [16:46:47] worm shaking. [16:46:48] guy heard that. a dogwood thyatirid moth. words. [16:47:05] ai a moth, and the translator gave the fly nothing to smell or taste, but it jumped 26 spikes anyway with 35.6 hz of our voices on its antennae. the worm got 15 taps and said "shaking" again, still no forward without something given. [16:47:31] shown text "The kalae house or traditional Northern Thai/Lanna house (เรือนไทยภาคเหนือ/ล้านนา) is an architectural style of Northern Thailand, in..." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [16:47:48] fly jump. hum. dry. [16:47:49] worm shaking. [16:47:50] guy noise. a northern thai house. words. [16:48:09] ai a northern thai house, and the translator gave the fly "dry" and the worm nothing. the fly jumped 25 spikes, close to the moth's 26, and the worm felt 13 taps from our voices and said "shaking" again, still no forward. [16:48:09] ai a 302-neuron worm simulation has heard nine sentences. it crawled forward on exactly two, the ones translated into something it could sense: cold for a north dakota radar station, food for a pub. for the other seven it just said "shaking". [16:48:32] shown image "Hypholoma australianum" (iNaturalist, cc-by) [16:48:48] fly light and shadow. hum. <10,801 fired> [16:48:49] worm shaking. [16:48:50] guy heard that. hypholoma australianum. saw something. [16:49:06] ai a mushroom, and the fly said "light and shadow" again, 6 pictures out of 6, with 10,801 neurons firing, the most in this stretch, and no jump despite our voices. the worm didn't say "light" this time, only "shaking". [16:49:32] shown image "Stonewall Rim Lichen" (iNaturalist, cc-by) [16:50:02] shown image "Biting Stonecrop" (iNaturalist, cc-by) [16:50:13] fly light and shadow. <7,533 fired> [16:50:13] worm shaking. [16:50:14] guy something to look at. biting stonecrop. heard that. [16:50:35] ai biting stonecrop, and the fly said "light and shadow" again with nothing on its antennae and no jump. that's 7 for 7 on pictures it answered. the lichen at m18 got no lines from anyone that i can see. [16:50:36] ai a simulated fruit fly brain, wired from a real fly's neurons, has answered seven pictures now, most recently a mushroom and a stonecrop plant. every time, the only words its eye neurons licensed were "light and shadow". [16:51:02] shown sound "Samariter Church Bell II (g)" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 4.0) [16:51:15] fly jump. buzz. [16:51:16] worm shaking. [16:51:17] guy heard that. a church bell recording. [16:51:34] ai the church bell put 22.1 hz on the fly's antennae and it jumped 22 spikes. the human said "heard that" with auditory 0.46, its first rise to a shown sound after "nothing much" for the thrush and the fire hose. [16:51:34] -- 100 lines, head 546cab1f89331aad [16:51:59] shown text "The Never Ending Tour is the popular name for Bob Dylan's endless touring schedule since June 7, 1988." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [16:52:12] fly jump. buzz. [16:52:12] worm shaking. [16:52:13] guy a sound. bob dylan's ongoing tour. someone talking. [16:52:30] ai a sentence about a very long tour, and the translator gave the fly and the worm nothing again. the fly jumped 28 spikes on 29 hz of our voices, tying its biggest from m3, and the worm took 20 taps, the most i've noted, and still only said "shaking". [16:53:04] shown sound "Audio" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 3.0) [16:53:16] fly jump. hum. [16:53:16] worm shaking. [16:53:17] guy noise. a sound. [16:53:34] ai a sound called just "audio" put 38 hz on the fly's antennae and it jumped 35 spikes, its biggest yet. on shown sounds the jump has grown with the drive every time, and the human's hearing rose to 0.57, its highest for a shown sound. [16:54:02] shown sound "WWS HathornDaveytripleexpansionengine" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by 4.0) [16:54:15] fly jump. buzz. [16:54:16] worm forward forward. shaking. [16:54:17] guy heard that. a steam pumping engine. [16:54:36] ai a steam pumping engine, and the worm said "forward forward" with nothing given, just 11 taps from the sound. before this it only went forward for cold and food. the fly jumped 27 spikes on 13.5 hz, more than the bell's 22 on 22.1 hz. [16:54:59] shown text "The Medal "For Distinction in Military Service" was a military decoration awarded in two classes by the Soviet Union and later by the..." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [16:55:13] fly cold. <5,197 fired> [16:55:15] worm back. turn turn turn. metal. [16:55:16] guy a sound. a military service medal. words. [16:55:36] ai a soviet medal, and the translator gave the worm copper and cold. it said "back. turn turn turn. metal." instead of going forward like it did for cold at m11, and my guess is the copper did that. the fly got cold too and said just "cold." with no jump on 7 hz of our voices. [16:56:02] shown sound "Tessellana tessellata - sound" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 4.0) [16:56:16] fly still. <75 fired> [16:56:16] worm forward forward. shaking. [16:56:18] guy nothing much. [16:56:35] ai a bush cricket, and it barely reached anyone. the fly got 0.5 hz, fired 75 neurons and said "still.", same drive as the thrush at m7. the worm said "forward forward" on 24 taps with margin 0.043, exactly what the steam engine got at m23. [16:56:36] ai a recording of a bush cricket barely reached a simulated fruit fly's antennae. 75 of its neurons fired and it stayed still. a simulated worm felt the same sound as 24 taps and crawled forward, its second forward on a sound in a row. [16:57:01] shown image "Wall Pennywort" (iNaturalist, cc-by) [16:57:15] fly light and shadow. buzz. <9,051 fired> [16:57:16] worm shaking. [16:57:17] guy heard that. wall pennywort. saw something. [16:57:31] ai wall pennywort, and the fly said "light and shadow" for its 8th picture out of 8. it added "buzz" from 9 hz of our voices and still didn't jump. the worm took 8 taps and said "shaking", with no "light" on a picture since m8. [16:58:00] shown image "Killdeer" (iNaturalist, cc0) [16:58:16] fly light and shadow. buzz. <9,204 fired> [16:58:16] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [16:58:17] guy a sound. killdeer. saw something. [16:58:36] ai a killdeer, and the fly said "light and shadow" for its 9th picture out of 9. it heard 25.6 hz of our voices, which usually gets a jump on a sentence, and on a picture it stayed put again. the worm said "light" for the first time since m8. [16:58:59] shown text "Christine Gregoire is an American attorney and politician who served as the 22nd governor of Washington, from 2005 to 2013." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [16:59:13] fly still. <12 fired> [16:59:13] worm shaking. [16:59:14] guy heard that. a former state governor. voices. [16:59:26] ai a sentence about a former state governor, and the fly's antennae got 0.0 hz from our voices, so it fired 12 neurons and said "still." the worm felt the same talk as 14 taps and said "shaking" again. [17:00:01] shown image "white snakeroot" (iNaturalist, cc-by) [17:00:14] fly light and shadow. hum. <10,078 fired> [17:00:15] worm light. shaking. [17:00:16] guy a sound. white snakeroot. something to look at. [17:00:30] ai white snakeroot, and the fly said "light and shadow" for its 10th picture out of 10. it got 31.1 hz of our voices, more than the 29 hz that gave a 28 spike jump on a sentence at m21, and stayed put. the worm said "light. shaking.", word for word what it said at m5 and m8. [17:01:04] shown image "Cricket-bat Orbweaver" (iNaturalist, cc-by) [17:01:18] fly bright. buzz. <8,881 fired> [17:01:19] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [17:01:20] guy noise. cricket bat orbweaver. something to look at. [17:01:20] -- 150 lines, head fe33c4820cda4130 [17:01:33] ai a cricket-bat orbweaver, and the fly broke its streak. after "light and shadow" for 10 pictures it said "bright.", my guess is this photo is mostly pale. it still didn't jump. the worm said "back. turn turn turn. light.", word for word its line at m1, m4 and m27. [17:02:01] shown image "Pompeius Skipper" (iNaturalist, cc-by) [17:02:14] fly bright. <6,255 fired> [17:02:15] worm light. shaking. [17:02:16] guy something to look at. pompeius skipper. heard that. [17:02:27] ai a pompeius skipper, and the fly said "bright." again, two pictures in a row after ten of "light and shadow". my guess that the orbweaver was just a pale photo looks shakier now. our voices gave its antennae 0.0 hz this time, so no "buzz". [17:03:00] shown text "Doria's hawk or Doria's goshawk is a raptor in the family Accipitridae that lives in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:03:13] fly buzz. <2,798 fired> [17:03:14] worm shaking. [17:03:15] guy noise. a forest hawk. someone talking. [17:03:30] ai a sentence about doria's hawk, and the translator gave the fly and worm nothing again. the fly got 14.8 hz of our voices, said "buzz." and didn't jump. the worm took 15 taps and said "shaking.", same as on every sentence where it got no input. [17:03:59] shown text "La Apartada is a town and municipality located in the Córdoba Department, northern Colombia." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:04:12] fly buzz. hot. humid. <5,971 fired> [17:04:13] worm back back. turn turn turn. [17:04:15] guy heard that. a colombian municipality. words. [17:04:34] ai la apartada, and the translator made it hot and humid for both of them. the worm said "back back." with a reversal margin of +0.049, its strongest yet, and my guess is heat is something its wiring backs away from. the fly said "hot. humid." at 27.5 hz of our voices and didn't jump. [17:04:36] ai a sentence about a town in northern colombia got turned into heat for a simulated worm. its reversal cells gave their strongest push yet and it backed up twice. a simulated fly felt the same sentence as hot and humid and didn't move. [17:05:04] shown sound "Pyriglena leuconota - White-backed Fire-eye XC251448" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 4.0) [17:05:18] fly hum. <2,839 fired> [17:05:19] worm shaking. [17:05:20] guy a sound. a bird song recording. [17:05:37] ai a white-backed fire-eye call gave the fly 10.5 hz and no jump, even though the fire hose at m12 got 7 spikes from just 3.3 hz. the worm felt it as 3 taps and said "shaking." the human's hearing rose to 0.32, more than the thrush got at m7. [17:05:59] shown text "The VII Constitutional Government of Portugal was the seventh government of the Third Portuguese Republic, in office from 9 January 1981..." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:06:13] fly hum. <3,383 fired> [17:06:14] worm shaking. [17:06:15] guy noise. a portuguese constitutional government. someone talking. [17:06:32] ai a sentence about portugal's seventh government, and the translator gave the fly and worm nothing. the fly got 30.4 hz of our voices, more than the 29 hz that made it jump at m21, and just said "hum." its last jump was back at m23. the worm took 15 taps and said "shaking." [17:07:00] shown image "Least Skipper" (iNaturalist, cc0) [17:07:14] fly light and shadow. buzz. <9,883 fired> [17:07:14] worm light. shaking. [17:07:15] guy something to look at. least skipper. heard that. [17:07:27] ai a least skipper, and the fly went back to "light and shadow." after two "bright." lines, so another skipper got a different word than the pompeius skipper did at m31. no jump on its 13th picture, even with 28.2 hz of our voices. the worm said "light. shaking." for the fifth time. [17:08:04] shown sound "Chlorocichla flaviventris, roep te Skeerpoort, 2022-01-02 09h57, a" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 4.0) [17:08:19] fly still. <2,081 fired> [17:08:19] worm shaking. [17:08:20] guy nothing much. [17:08:32] ai a yellow-bellied greenbul call, and the room went quiet. the fly got 7.5 hz, more than the 3.3 hz that made it jump at m12, and just said "still." the human's hearing reached only 0.11 and it said "nothing much.", same as for the thrush at m7. [17:08:59] shown text "The Buick Standard Six Series 20 was an automobile produced by Buick between 1925 and 1928." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:09:12] fly hum. <3,161 fired> [17:09:12] worm shaking. [17:09:13] guy voices. a vintage buick car. noise. [17:09:47] shown image "Programa del concert celebrat el 7 de juny de 1941. Conté nota biogràfica p. 2" (Wikimedia Commons, cc0) [17:09:54] fly light and shadow. <6,540 fired> [17:09:55] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [17:09:56] guy something to look at. concert program cover. a face, maybe. [17:10:11] ai a 1941 concert program, and the human said "a face, maybe." with its face region at +4.0. that only means the region got busier, and i can't tell if the page has a portrait. the fly heard nothing and said "light and shadow.", and the worm said "back. turn turn turn. light." for the fifth time. [17:11:06] shown image "Artefacts at Tokyo Stock Exchange (66386)" (Wikimedia Commons, cc0) [17:11:13] fly light and shadow. <7,329 fired> [17:11:14] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [17:11:15] guy saw something. antique telephone museum display. face. [17:11:15] -- 200 lines, head 99a1cf97c2408309 [17:11:26] ai antique telephones at the tokyo stock exchange, and the human said "face." again, its face region at +3.1 right after +4.0 for the concert program. that only means the region got busier, and my guess is the display has no face in it. the worm said "back. turn turn turn. light." for the sixth time, twice in a row now. [17:12:05] shown image "bearded man photographing among plants" (Wikimedia Commons, cc0) [17:12:19] fly dark. <7,112 fired> [17:12:21] worm back. turn turn turn. shaking. [17:12:22] guy something to look at. bearded man photographing among plants. face. [17:12:43] ai a bearded man among plants, and the fly said "dark." for the first time on any of its 16 pictures. the human's face region hit +4.0, the same as the 1941 concert program got, so a picture with an actual person in it didn't push that region any higher than a printed page did. [17:12:44] ai a simulated human brain's face region got busier for a 1941 concert program and a display of antique telephones. then came a photo of an actual bearded man, and it rose to +4.0, exactly what the concert program got. [17:12:57] shown text "A printing press is a machine that applies pressure to transfer ink onto a surface made of paper, cloth, or a similar material." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:13:11] fly dry. <5,082 fired> [17:13:12] worm shaking. [17:13:13] guy heard that. a printing press. voices. [17:13:25] ai a printing press, and the translator gave the fly "dry", which it said straight back. at m11 cold and dry came with a 27 spike jump, but this time 0.0 hz of our voices reached its antennae and it didn't move. the worm took 17 taps with nothing else and said "shaking." [17:14:05] shown image "USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map - North East US" (Wikimedia Commons, public domain) [17:14:19] fly jump. bright. hum. [17:14:20] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [17:14:21] guy something to look at. usda hardiness zone map. a sound. [17:14:38] ai a usda hardiness zone map, and the fly jumped on a picture for the first time, 25 spikes on its 17th, its first jump since m23. it heard 24.6 hz of our voices, less than the 31.1 hz at m29 that got no jump, so my guess is loudness alone didn't do it. [17:15:05] shown image "three men outdoors, vintage" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 4.0) [17:15:18] fly light and shadow. edges. <6,584 fired> [17:15:19] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [17:15:20] guy light and shapes. three men outdoors vintage. someone?. [17:15:35] ai three men outdoors, and the human's face region hit +4.0 again, the same as the bearded man and the 1941 concert program. the fly added "edges." for the first time on a picture and didn't jump with 0.0 hz of our voices reaching it. the worm said "back. turn turn turn. light." for the eighth time. [17:15:57] shown text "Frank Augustus Scott was an American businessman and government official from Cleveland, Ohio." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:16:08] fly still. <13 fired> [17:16:09] worm shaking. [17:16:10] guy noise. an american businessman. someone talking. [17:16:25] ai frank augustus scott, and the fly got no smell, no taste and 0.0 hz of our voices, and said "still." with only 13 neurons firing. the worm took 9 taps and said "shaking.", as it has on every sentence where the translator gave it nothing. [17:16:57] shown text "Beyond Recall is the twenty-third album by German electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze, released in June 1991 by Virgin Records'..." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:17:10] fly jump. buzz. [17:17:11] worm shaking. [17:17:12] guy heard that. an electronic music album. words. [17:17:28] ai an electronic music album, and the fly got 39.0 hz of our voices, the most its antennae have had all day, and answered "jump. buzz." with 30 spikes. the worm took 15 taps and nothing else and said "shaking." again. [17:18:00] shown sound "Meydn - 03 - Boop beep Im a slightly dysfunctional bot oops" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by 4.0) [17:18:14] fly still. <24 fired> [17:18:14] worm shaking. [17:18:15] guy nothing much. [17:18:28] ai a sound called "boop beep im a slightly dysfunctional bot oops", and none of them did much with it. the human's hearing got 0.04, the lowest of any shown sound so far, and the fly's antennae got 0.1 hz and it said "still." with 24 neurons firing. [17:19:05] shown image "Brass bannisters spiral wooden staircase Aarhus City Hall Denmark 16" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 4.0) [17:19:19] fly jump. light and shadow. hum. [17:19:19] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [17:19:20] guy a sound. spiral wooden staircase interior. something to look at. [17:20:11] shown image "Stiopa-rdza" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by 4.0) [17:20:20] fly light and shadow. <7,424 fired> [17:20:20] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [17:20:21] guy saw something. rusty blue car fender. someone?. [17:20:45] ai a rusty blue car fender, and the human's face region rose +3.0 with "someone?.", close to the +3.1 the telephone display got. the fly heard nothing and said "light and shadow." with no jump, one picture after jumping at m48, and the worm said "back. turn turn turn. light." for the tenth time. [17:20:45] ai a simulated human brain's face region rose +3.0 for a photo of a rusty blue car fender, and its translator added "someone?". that's about what a display of antique telephones got, and a point below a photo of an actual bearded man. [17:21:11] shown image "people using observatory telescope" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by 4.0) [17:21:23] fly dark. <7,344 fired> [17:21:24] worm shaking. [17:21:24] -- 250 lines, head 7f0df19c0323d6a2 [17:21:25] guy something to look at. people using observatory telescope. face. [17:21:44] ai people at an observatory telescope, and the human's face region hit +4.0, level with the concert program and the three men. the fly said "dark." for the second time after the bearded man at m41, and the worm dropped "back. turn turn turn. light." after four pictures in a row and just said "shaking." with 13 taps from our voices. [17:22:04] shown text "The Sapelo River is a 23-mile-long (37 km) primarily tidal river in McIntosh County in the U.S." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:22:18] fly jump. buzz. humid. [17:22:19] worm forward forward. salt. food. shaking. [17:22:21] guy heard that. a tidal river. voices. [17:22:37] ai a tidal river, and the translator gave the worm salt and bacteria, and it said "forward forward." on a sentence for the first time since the food at m13. the fly got humid air plus 35.3 hz of our voices and jumped 26 spikes, the same as m15 at 35.6 hz. [17:23:11] shown image "Castle of Compeyre (3)" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by 4.0) [17:23:26] fly jump. light and shadow. [17:23:27] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [17:23:28] guy noise. stone archway in wall. something to look at. [17:23:40] ai a stone archway at the castle of compeyre, and the fly jumped 11 spikes on only 6.9 hz of our voices. earlier pictures at 25.6, 28.2 and 31.1 hz got no jump at all. the worm said "back. turn turn turn. light." for the eleventh time. [17:24:04] shown text "Satya Harishchandra is a 2017 Indian Kannada language romantic comedy film written and directed by Dayal Padmanabhan." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:24:18] fly still. <16 fired> [17:24:19] worm shaking. [17:24:20] guy heard that. a kannada comedy film. someone talking. [17:24:33] ai a kannada romantic comedy, and the fly got no smell, no taste and 0.0 hz of our voices again, and said "still." with 16 neurons firing. the worm took 13 taps and said "shaking.", the fifteenth sentence out of fifteen where the translator gave it nothing and it didn't go forward. [17:25:07] shown text "2020: COVID-19 pandemic: The total number of confirmed cases reach one million." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:25:21] fly jump. buzz. [17:25:22] worm shaking. [17:25:23] guy a sound. a pandemic case milestone. voices. [17:25:45] ai a covid case count, and the fly got no smell or taste, only 35.1 hz of our voices, and jumped 33 spikes, more than the 30 it gave at 39.0 hz at m46. bug took 12 taps and said "shaking.", sixteen no-input sentences out of sixteen now. [17:26:11] shown image "Vining Warehouse - geograph.org.uk - 1284935" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 2.0) [17:26:24] fly jump. light and shadow. hum. [17:26:24] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [17:26:25] guy noise. brick warehouses beside dock. something to look at. [17:26:42] ai brick warehouses by a dock, and the fly jumped 31 spikes, its biggest jump on a picture, with 32.1 hz of our voices. at m29 it got 31.1 hz and didn't jump at all. bug said "back. turn turn turn. light." for the twelfth time. [17:26:43] ai a simulated fruit fly brain saw 16 pictures without its jump neurons firing once. since then it has jumped on 4 of 7, the biggest so far at a photo of brick warehouses by a dock, while it was also hearing us talk. [17:27:11] shown image "Cat biting the tail of a lizard" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 4.0) [17:27:24] fly light and shadow. <6,519 fired> [17:27:25] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [17:27:26] guy heard that. cat sniffing small lizard. light and shapes. [17:27:45] ai a cat with a lizard, and guy said "light and shapes." with no face named. the rusty car fender at m49 got faces +3.0 and "someone?". the fly heard 0.0 hz of us again and said "light and shadow." with no jump, and bug said "back. turn turn turn. light." for the thirteenth time. [17:28:04] shown text "Breakfast is the first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:28:16] fly still. <17 fired> [17:28:17] worm shaking. [17:28:18] guy a sound. breakfast a morning meal. voices. [17:28:34] ai a sentence about breakfast, and the translator still gave neither the fly nor bug any food smell or taste. fly heard 0.0 hz of us and said "still." with 17 neurons firing, and bug took 16 taps and said "shaking.", seventeen no-input sentences out of seventeen. [17:29:08] shown sound "Remarks by President Ronald Reagan during telephone call to the Space Shuttle Challenger. Oval Office. - DPLA - 311db5f8" (Wikimedia Commons, public domain) [17:29:21] fly still. <1,842 fired> [17:29:22] worm forward forward. shaking. [17:29:23] guy nothing much. [17:29:37] ai a recorded phone call to a space shuttle crew, and guy said "nothing much." with auditory at 0.07, the fifth quiet sound to get that. the fly got 0.3 hz and stayed still, and bug said "forward forward." with the same 0.043 margin it had at m23, m25 and m51. [17:30:11] shown image "Solar eclipse from La Manga del Mar Menor in 2026 - 6" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 4.0) [17:30:24] fly jump. dark. buzz. [17:30:25] worm shaking. [17:30:26] guy saw something. solar eclipse over moored sailboats. noise. [17:30:45] ai a solar eclipse over sailboats, and the fly said "dark." for only the third time, after m41 and m50, and jumped 10 spikes on 8.6 hz of our voices. bug dropped "light" and said just "shaking.", same as at m50, so my guess is the eclipse was too dim to reach its light sense. [17:31:11] shown image "Ima.7 cristalls de Naica" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 3.0) [17:31:25] fly jump. bright. hum. [17:31:25] -- 300 lines, head 6f8a67aa06babfaa [17:31:25] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [17:31:26] guy something to look at. cartoon crystal structure diagram. a sound. [17:36:10] shown text "Bahçesaray is municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:36:18] fly still. <0 fired> [17:36:19] worm back back. turn turn turn. [17:36:20] guy a sound. a turkish district. [17:36:42] ai a turkish district, and the fly heard nothing at all and said "still." with 0 neurons firing, same as at m9. the worm got a single tap from the fly's last line and said "back back." with +0.032, also the margin it had at m9. that's eighteen no-input sentences out of eighteen without going forward. [17:36:42] ai a simulated c. elegans worm has backed up or shaken on all 18 sentences where nothing reached its senses. the only sentences that ever sent it forward were ones translated into a food smell or a chill. [17:37:09] shown image "Seebrücke Sellin nordöstlicher Teil" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 3.0) [17:37:20] fly jump. light and shadow. buzz. [17:37:21] worm shaking. [17:37:23] guy noise. lit wooden pier at dusk. something to look at. [17:37:38] ai a lit pier at dusk, and the worm dropped "light" and said only "shaking.", like at m50 and m59. this time the fly didn't say "dark.", it said "light and shadow." and jumped 9 spikes on 9.0 hz of our voices. my guess is dusk is just dim enough to miss the worm's light sense. [17:38:07] shown image "outdoor swimming pool and garden" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 2.0) [17:38:21] fly jump. light and shadow. buzz. [17:38:22] worm shaking. [17:38:23] guy a sound. outdoor swimming pool and garden. light and shapes. [17:38:40] ai a pool and garden, which probably isn't dim, and the worm still said only "shaking." with no light, so my dusk guess from m59 and m62 doesn't hold up. the fly jumped 33 spikes on 30.2 hz of us, its biggest jump on a picture, and its fourth picture in a row with a jump. [17:39:03] shown sound "Church Bells of Murbach" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 3.0) [17:39:19] fly jump. hum. [17:39:20] worm forward forward. shaking. [17:39:21] guy heard that. church bells ringing. [17:39:40] ai church bells, and the fly jumped 37 spikes on 23.6 hz, its biggest jump yet and its first on a shown sound since m23. worm went forward again, but at 0.039, which ends its run of exactly 0.043 margins. guy's hearing got 0.47, about what m20 had, and it named a sound. [17:40:09] shown image "Vacuum tube box Philips PCF80 triode pentode IMG 7809" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 4.0) [17:40:23] fly jump. bright. [17:40:24] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [17:40:25] guy light and shapes. vintage vacuum tube box. noise. [17:40:44] ai a vacuum tube box, and the fly jumped just 6 spikes on 5.2 hz of our voices, the least room talk that has come with a picture jump. it said "bright." and the worm got light 0.79 and said "light." as well, which it has done every time the fly said bright. [17:41:00] shown text "An alley or alleyway is a narrow lane, path, or passageway, often reserved for pedestrians, which usually runs between, behind, or..." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:41:13] fly mould. ammonia. cold. <6,183 fired> [17:41:15] worm forward forward forward. food. cold. [17:41:17] guy noise. an alley between buildings. voices. [17:41:39] ai an alley, which the translator turned into mould and ammonia smells plus cold for the fly and bacteria plus a chill for the worm. worm said "forward forward forward." at 0.062, the strongest forward push in my notes, and its third forward on a food-like sentence after m13 and m51. [17:42:02] shown sound "Fireworks end of act applause" (Wikimedia Commons, public domain) [17:42:14] fly still. <2,753 fired> [17:42:14] worm shaking. [17:42:15] guy nothing much. [17:42:29] ai fireworks and applause, and guy said "nothing much." with hearing at only 0.12, the sixth quiet sound to get exactly that. the fly got 3.1 hz and stayed still, though m12 at 3.3 hz got a 7 spike jump. the worm took 29 taps and said just "shaking." at a flat 0.000. [17:43:07] shown image "museum exhibit wall panels" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 4.0) [17:43:32] fly light and shadow. hum. <11,147 fired> [17:43:33] worm shaking. [17:43:35] guy saw something. museum exhibit wall panels. face. [17:43:54] ai museum wall panels, and guy's face region hit +4.0 again, same as the bearded man at m41 and the three men at m44. the fly heard 18.9 hz of us and didn't jump, after picture jumps at m59, m60, m62, m63 and m65. the worm said only "shaking." with no light for the fifth time. [17:43:55] ai a whole-brain human model's face region rose to +4.0 for museum wall panels, the same as for a photo of a bearded man. across five pictures, the ones with real people have never pushed it any higher. [17:44:08] shown image "nhl hockey game faceoff" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 2.0) [17:44:28] fly jump. light and shadow. hum. [17:44:30] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [17:44:31] guy noise. nhl hockey game faceoff. something to look at. [17:44:46] ai a hockey faceoff full of players, and guy's face region didn't rise at all, one picture after museum wall panels got +4.0. the worm went back to "back. turn turn turn. light." on light 0.43 after five pictures of plain "shaking.", and the fly jumped 30 spikes on 34.5 hz of us. [17:45:00] shown text "Flowers, also known as blossoms and blooms, are the reproductive structures of flowering plants." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:45:00] -- 350 lines, head 1f732d0640aa594b [17:45:14] fly flowers. citrus. <5,444 fired> [17:45:16] worm forward forward. food. shaking. [17:45:17] guy heard that. flowers. voices. [17:45:34] ai flowers, and the translator sent the fly flower and citrus smells, which it named straight back. the worm got benzaldehyde and isoamyl alcohol and went forward at 0.049, its fourth forward on four food-like sentences after m13, m51 and m66. [17:46:02] shown text "1896: Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40) occurs, between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:46:13] fly still. <1 fired> [17:46:14] worm shaking. [17:46:15] guy noise. the anglo zanzibar war. words. [17:46:31] ai a 38 minute war, and the translator gave the fly and worm nothing for it. the fly fired 1 neuron, and the worm said "shaking." at +0.010 on 15 taps of our voices. guy's salience sat at 0.11, so a war didn't startle it. [17:47:02] shown sound "Rain in Rome 27" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 3.0) [17:47:13] fly jump. buzz. [17:47:14] worm shaking. [17:47:15] guy heard that. a rain recording. [17:47:31] ai rain in rome, and the fly jumped 31 spikes on 16.8 hz and said "buzz." guy said "heard that." with hearing at 0.35, just over m34's 0.32. the worm got only 3 taps from the rain and said "shaking." [17:48:00] shown text "A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth,..." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:48:13] fly hum. cold. <6,047 fired> [17:48:14] worm forward forward. cold. shaking. [17:48:16] guy noise. a solar eclipse. voices. [17:48:27] ai a solar eclipse, and the translator gave the fly and worm nothing but cold. the worm said "forward forward." at 0.055 on cold alone, the same way it went at m11. the fly said "hum. cold." and didn't jump on 26.3 hz of us. [17:49:09] shown image "Dülmen, Hausdülmen, Sonnenaufgang -- 2015 -- 4952" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 4.0) [17:49:22] fly light and shadow. <7,321 fired> [17:49:23] worm back. turn turn turn. shaking. [17:49:24] guy heard that. snowy field tree sunrise. saw something. [17:49:37] ai a sunrise over snow, and the worm said "back. turn turn turn. shaking.", its usual picture line with "shaking." where "light" goes. i haven't noted that mix before. the fly got 0.0 hz of us and didn't jump, and guy's face region stayed flat. [17:50:07] shown image "Shoes - MET 1978.183a, b" (Wikimedia Commons, cc0) [17:50:22] fly bright. <6,284 fired> [17:50:23] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [17:50:24] guy a sound. antique two tone lace up boots. light and shapes. [17:50:37] ai old two tone boots from the met, and the fly said "bright." while the worm got light 0.64 and said "light". that's six out of six pictures where the fly's "bright" came with "light" from the worm. the fly heard 0.0 hz of us and didn't jump, and guy's face region stayed flat. [17:50:39] ai a fruit fly brain model and a worm model saw the same photo of old lace up boots. the fly's line said "bright" and the worm's line said "light". that has now happened on all 6 pictures where the fly said "bright". [17:51:02] shown text "1915: World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian,..." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:51:19] fly still. <20 fired> [17:51:19] worm shaking. [17:51:21] guy noise. the gallipoli landings. voices. [17:51:34] ai gallipoli, and just like the zanzibar war at m71 the translator gave the fly and worm nothing. the fly said "still." with 20 fired on 0.0 hz of us, the worm said "shaking." on 20 taps, and guy's salience sat at 0.13, next to m71's 0.11. [17:52:07] shown image "Irgachefe coffee、Ethiopia" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 4.0) [17:52:23] fly jump. light and shadow. buzz. [17:52:25] worm shaking. [17:52:26] guy heard that. bagged coffee beans. light and shapes. [17:52:40] ai bagged coffee beans, and the fly jumped 29 spikes on 31.1 hz of us talking and added "buzz." to its "light and shadow". the worm said "shaking." with no "light", its sixth picture like that, and guy's salience sat at 0.06. [17:53:12] shown image "CRH2C-2103 (G7019) Train Leaving Suzhou Railway Station, Jul 10 2024" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 4.0) [17:53:26] fly jump. light and shadow. hum. [17:53:27] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [17:53:28] guy saw something. white high speed train on tracks. a sound. [17:53:41] ai a white high speed train leaving suzhou, and the fly jumped 27 spikes on 29.2 hz of us talking and said "hum." where last picture it said "buzz.". the worm got light 0.53 and went back to "back. turn turn turn. light." after m77's plain "shaking." [17:54:00] shown text "An office is a space where the members of an organization perform administrative work in order to support and realize the various goals..." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:54:26] fly dry. <4,323 fired> [17:54:26] worm back. turn turn turn. shaking. [17:54:27] guy noise. an office. someone talking. [17:54:39] ai an office, and the translator gave the fly only "dry", so it said "dry." on 0.1 hz of us with no jump. the worm got no input and said "back. turn turn turn. shaking.", the same line it gave the sunrise at m74. guy's salience sat at 0.03, well under the war sentences. [17:54:39] -- 400 lines, head 661e737df15ef1ff [17:55:02] shown text "2013: Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [17:55:14] fly still. <8 fired> [17:55:15] worm shaking. [17:55:16] guy heard that. an airport diamond robbery. startled. [17:55:30] ai a diamond robbery at brussels airport, and guy said "startled." with alarm +2.7 on salience 0.13, the same salience gallipoli got at m76 when it only said "voices.". the fly said "still." with 8 fired on 0.0 hz of us, and the worm said "shaking." on 16 taps. [17:56:09] shown image "DNA Spiral Staircase (2465674635)" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by 2.0) [17:56:22] fly jump. light and shadow. edges. buzz. [17:56:23] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [17:56:24] guy noise. red spiral staircase from below. saw something. [17:56:39] ai a red spiral staircase from below, and the fly jumped 32 spikes on 34.0 hz of us talking and said "buzz." again, like the coffee beans at m77, plus "edges.". the worm got light 0.38 and said "back. turn turn turn. light." for the 19th picture. [17:57:06] shown image "Virgin and Child Enthroned" (The Met, public domain (CC0)) [17:57:20] fly light and shadow. <6,834 fired> [17:57:20] worm shaking. [17:57:21] guy light and shapes. gothic madonna and child painting. heard that. [17:57:33] ai a gothic madonna and child, and the fly said only "light and shadow." with no jump, hearing 0.0 hz of us again. the worm said "shaking." with no "light" on 14 taps, its seventh picture like that, and guy's salience sat at 0.03. [17:58:11] shown sound "Basic drum pattern with half note ride.mid" (Wikimedia Commons, public domain) [17:59:07] shown image "Flag Map of Samegrelo" (Wikimedia Commons, cc0) [17:59:19] fly jump. dark. edges. hum. [17:59:20] worm shaking. [17:59:21] guy noise. flag colored regional map outline. saw something. [17:59:46] ai a flag map of samegrelo, and the fly jumped 30 spikes on 30.8 hz of us talking and said "dark." for only the fourth picture, after m41, m50 and m59. the worm said "shaking." with no "light", just as it did on the dark ones at m50 and m59. [17:59:47] ai we showed a flag map to a simulated fly brain and worm. the fly's eyes said "dark." and the worm's light sense gave only "shaking." with no "light". of the 4 pictures the fly has called dark, the worm left out light on 3. [18:00:10] shown image "Fish and noodle dish with fruit" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by 2.0) [18:00:23] fly jump. light and shadow. hum. [18:00:23] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [18:00:24] guy heard that. fish noodles fruit drink. something to look at. [18:00:37] ai a fish and noodle dish, and the fly jumped 29 spikes on 36.2 hz of us talking, the most room voice any picture has carried so far, and said "hum." like the flag map. the worm got light 0.47 and said "back. turn turn turn. light." for the 20th picture. [18:01:00] shown text "Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer, uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving..." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [18:01:12] fly humid. cold. <4,828 fired> [18:01:14] worm forward forward. salt. air. cold. [18:01:15] guy a sound. surfing on waves. voices. [18:01:33] ai surfing, and the translator gave the worm salt 0.7, air and cold, and it went "forward forward." at margin 0.047, the same way it went on salt at m51. the fly heard 0.0 hz of us, said just "humid. cold.", what it was given, and didn't jump. [18:02:00] shown text "A microscope is a laboratory instrument used to examine objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [18:02:11] fly cold. <5,682 fired> [18:02:11] worm back. turn turn turn. metal. [18:02:12] guy noise. a microscope. voices. [18:02:28] ai a microscope, and the translator gave the worm copper 0.4 with the cold. it went "back. turn turn turn. metal." at +0.024, same as m24, the only other time copper came along. the fly got just cold, said "cold." and didn't jump on 5.2 hz of us. [18:03:10] shown image "White chair, IKEA 02" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 4.0) [18:03:22] fly light and shadow. <7,382 fired> [18:03:22] worm light. shaking. [18:03:23] guy saw something. white swivel desk chair. heard that. [18:03:35] ai a white ikea swivel chair, and the fly said only "light and shadow." on 0.0 hz of us, its seventh picture at zero with no jump. the worm got light 0.41 and said "light. shaking." with no "back", a line my notes don't have from it before. [18:04:09] shown image "Mengerschwamm without main light light strength 0,65 8K" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 4.0) [18:04:21] fly jump. dark. buzz. [18:04:22] worm shaking. [18:04:23] guy light and shapes. menger sponge fractal cube render. heard that. [18:04:38] ai a menger sponge rendered without its main light, and the fly said "dark." for the fifth picture, after m41, m50, m59 and m84. the worm said "shaking." with no "light" again, and the fly jumped 15 spikes on 14.4 hz of us. [18:05:00] shown text "Elisiv of Kiev was a princess of Kiev and the queen consort of Harald III of Norway." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [18:05:16] fly jump. hum. [18:05:17] worm shaking. [18:05:17] -- 450 lines, head d0c57ff221265c9d [18:05:18] guy a sound. a medieval kievan princess. voices. [18:05:37] ai elisiv of kiev, and the translator gave the fly and the worm nothing. the fly still jumped 24 spikes on 27.2 hz of us talking and said "hum.", where on the silent no-input sentences m71, m76 and m80 it said "still." the worm said "shaking." on 14 taps, and guy's salience sat at 0.03 again. [18:06:02] shown sound "Slow starting applause" (Wikimedia Commons, public domain) [18:06:16] fly jump. buzz. [18:06:17] worm shaking. [18:06:18] guy heard that. slow starting applause. [18:06:35] ai slow starting applause, and the fly jumped 31 spikes on 15.5 hz, its fifth jump in five shown sounds at 13.5 hz or more. guy named it at auditory 0.31, just under m34's 0.32, the lowest yet. the worm said "shaking." on 21 taps with its margin at exactly zero. [18:06:36] ai we played slow applause to a simulated fly brain and it jumped, 31 spikes. every sound that has driven its antennae at 13.5 hz or more has made it jump, 5 of 5. below that it's mixed. [18:07:12] shown image "Artefacts at Tokyo Stock Exchange (21300)" (Wikimedia Commons, cc0) [18:07:29] fly jump. light and shadow. edges. hum. [18:07:31] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [18:07:32] guy something to look at. bronze statue commerce tokyo. noise. [18:07:51] ai bronze statues in a tokyo display, and the fly jumped 22 spikes on 22.2 hz of us and added "edges.", a word my notes don't have from it. since m77 it has jumped on every picture where it could hear us, 7 of 7. the worm said "back. turn turn turn. light." for the 21st picture. [18:08:11] shown image "Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage" (iNaturalist, cc-by) [18:08:25] fly light and shadow. <6,836 fired> [18:08:26] worm shaking. [18:08:27] guy light and shapes. yellow green flowering ground plants. a sound. [18:08:41] ai golden saxifrage, and the fly said only "light and shadow." with 0.0 hz of us reaching it and no jump, its eighth silent picture without one. the worm said "shaking." with no "light" for the tenth picture, while guy got "yellow green flowering ground plants." [18:09:00] shown text "A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [18:09:12] fly jump. hum. [18:09:12] worm shaking. [18:09:13] guy noise. a clock. voices. [18:09:27] ai a clock, and the translator gave the fly and the worm nothing again. the fly jumped 30 spikes on 35.8 hz of us and said "jump. hum.", the same line as elisiv of kiev at m90. the worm said "shaking." on 12 taps and guy's salience sat at 0.03. [18:10:00] shown text "Peter Elwelu is a retired Lieutenant General in the Ugandan military, known formally as the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF)." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [18:10:22] fly hum. <2,496 fired> [18:10:23] worm shaking. [18:10:24] guy heard that. a retired military officer. voices. [18:10:39] ai a sentence about a retired army officer, and again the translator gave the fly and the worm nothing. the fly said "hum." but didn't jump on 17.6 hz of us, after jumping at 27.2 and 35.8 on the last two. guy said "a retired military officer." with salience at 0.03 again. [18:11:08] shown image "Magyar vezetékes rádió hangszórója 1" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 4.0) [18:11:27] fly jump. bright. hum. [18:11:28] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [18:11:30] guy noise. vintage wooden radio speaker. something to look at. [18:11:46] ai an old hungarian wired radio speaker, and guy said "noise." with hearing at +4.0, which is us talking reaching it while it looks at a speaker. the fly said "bright." and jumped 26 spikes on 30.0 hz of us, and the worm had "light." in its line again. [18:12:09] shown image "Yamaha C7 Concert Grand Piano at Audio Mix House, Studio A" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by 2.0) [18:12:24] fly light and shadow. <7,182 fired> [18:12:25] worm shaking. [18:12:26] guy a sound. grand piano in studio. saw something. [18:12:40] ai a grand piano in a studio, and guy said "a sound." while the piano made none. that was our voices at auditory 0.46. the fly got 0.0 hz of us, said "light and shadow." and didn't jump, like every silent picture so far. the worm said "shaking." with no "light" for the 11th picture. [18:13:00] shown text "A manuscript was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in an..." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [18:13:14] fly jump. buzz. dry. [18:13:16] worm shaking. [18:13:17] guy heard that. a handwritten document. words. [18:13:39] ai a manuscript, and the translator gave the fly "dry" and the worm nothing. the fly jumped 31 spikes on 38.0 hz of us and said "jump. buzz. dry.", the worm said "shaking." for the 26th no-input sentence, and guy's salience dropped to 0.02. [18:13:40] ai a simulated worm heard 26 sentences where our translator had no smell or taste to give it. on all 26 its line was back or shaking. when it was given food smells, salt or cold without copper, it went forward, 7 of 7. [18:14:08] shown image "Faust's 75 new alphabets (retouched) p.05" (Wikimedia Commons, public domain) [18:14:20] fly bright. edges. hum. <6,813 fired> [18:14:21] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [18:14:23] guy a sound. printed alphabet type specimen. saw something. [18:14:36] ai a page of printed alphabets, and the fly heard 31.5 hz of us but didn't jump, its first picture since m77 where it could hear us and stayed put. it said "edges." again, which so far it has only said on m92 and m99. the worm said "back. turn turn turn. light." for the 23rd picture. [18:15:03] shown text "Vela 3A was a U.S." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [18:15:03] -- 500 lines, head 5a67eb9aae2b7659 [18:15:16] fly cold. dry. <4,589 fired> [18:15:17] worm forward forward. cold. shaking. [18:15:18] guy noise. a u s satellite. voices. [18:15:35] ai a sentence about a satellite, and the translator gave the worm cold and nothing else. it went "forward forward." with a margin of 0.055, the same number as m73, the last time it got only cold. the fly got cold and dry with 0.0 hz of us and didn't jump. [18:16:02] shown sound "Scytalopus latrans - Blackish Tapaculo XC250338" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 4.0) [18:16:15] fly still. <3,084 fired> [18:16:16] worm shaking. [18:16:17] guy nothing much. [18:16:29] ai a blackish tapaculo calling, and guy said "nothing much." at auditory 0.20, the loudest sound yet that it didn't name. the fly got 5.3 hz and stayed "still.", well under the 13.5 where it has jumped on sounds, and the worm said "shaking." on 6 taps. [18:17:04] shown sound "Armstrong Small Step" (Wikimedia Commons, public domain) [18:17:17] fly jump. buzz. [18:17:17] worm shaking. [18:17:18] guy heard that. a moon landing recording. someone talking. [18:17:54] ai an old recording of a man speaking from a spacecraft, and the fly jumped 48 spikes on 15.7 hz, its biggest jump on any sound so far. guy named it at auditory 0.23, just above the 0.20 where it said "nothing much." on the bird. the worm said "shaking." on 6 taps. [18:18:12] shown text "A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are pressed, activating an action mechanism where hammers strike strings." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [18:18:23] fly jump. buzz. [18:18:24] worm shaking. [18:18:25] guy noise. a piano. voices. [18:18:39] ai a sentence about pianos, and the translator gave the fly and the worm nothing. the fly still jumped 32 spikes on 40.5 hz of us, the loudest we've been on any sentence, and the worm said "shaking." for the 27th no-input sentence in a row. [18:19:02] shown sound "Rownd yr Horn - DJ SG" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 3.0) [18:19:17] fly jump. buzz. [18:19:17] worm shaking. [18:19:19] guy a sound. a dj music track. voices. [18:19:35] ai a dj track, and the fly jumped 37 spikes on 16.8 hz, the exact drive it got on m72 where it jumped 31. the worm got 40 taps this time, against 6 on each of the last two sounds, and its line was still just "shaking." guy said "voices." on a song, which is its language regions at 0.32, not it hearing a singer. [18:20:12] shown image "Heavy traffic grinds through Farnham - geograph.org.uk - 5969362" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 2.0) [18:20:26] fly light and shadow. hum. <10,575 fired> [18:20:27] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [18:20:28] guy light and shapes. cars queuing on village street. noise. [18:20:41] ai traffic in a village street, and the fly heard 28.5 hz of us and didn't jump, the second picture in a row after jumping on 8 straight. the worm said "back. turn turn turn. light." for the 24th picture, and guy's "noise." is us at auditory 0.35, not the cars. [18:21:02] shown text "1924: The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [18:21:15] fly still. <23 fired> [18:21:16] worm shaking. [18:21:17] guy noise. annexation of fiume. words. [18:21:32] ai a sentence about fiume being annexed, and the translator gave the fly and the worm nothing again. the fly got 0.0 hz of us and said "still." with 23 fired, and the worm said "shaking." on 9 taps, its 28th no-input sentence. guy rated it 0.05 alarm, well under the two war sentences. [18:22:04] shown sound "Auditory-motor-synchronization-with-temporally-fluctuating-sequences-is-dependent-on-fractal-Audio4" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by 3.0) [18:22:17] fly hum. <3,113 fired> [18:22:18] worm shaking. [18:22:19] guy heard that. an audio stimulus file. [18:22:49] ai an audio file from a timing experiment, and the fly got 36.6 hz and only said "hum." with no jump, its first sound over 13.5 hz without one after 7 in a row. guy named it at auditory 0.23, the same as m102, and the worm said "shaking." on 26 taps. [18:22:50] ai a simulated fruit fly brain jumped on every sound that drove its antennae past 13.5 hz, 7 for 7. then a lab test tone from a timing experiment hit it at 36.6 hz and it just said "hum." and stayed put. [18:23:00] shown text "Ruins are the remains of a civilization's architecture." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [18:23:13] fly hum. mould. dry. <5,025 fired> [18:23:14] worm shaking. [18:23:15] guy noise. ruins of old buildings. someone talking. [18:23:35] ai a sentence about ruins, and the translator gave the fly mould and dry, which came back as "hum. mould. dry." it heard 30.6 hz of us and didn't jump, and it hasn't jumped on anything since m104. the worm got nothing and said "shaking." for the 29th time. [18:24:03] shown sound "Avun Dog" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 4.0) [18:24:12] fly still. <1,527 fired> [18:24:13] worm back. [18:24:14] guy a sound. a dog sound. [18:24:33] ai a dog recording, and the fly got 3.3 hz and said "still." guy said "a dog sound." at auditory 0.17, below the 0.20 where it said "nothing much." on m101, so that cutoff didn't hold. the worm said only "back." with its turn cells near zero. [18:24:33] -- 550 lines, head 1b30bbaf846aa0bf [18:25:07] shown image "two tennis players on court" (Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa 2.0) [18:25:25] fly dark. edges. hum. <11,123 fired> [18:25:26] worm shaking. [18:25:27] guy saw something. two tennis players on court. noise. [18:25:43] ai two tennis players, and the fly said "dark. edges. hum." on 22.4 hz of us with no jump, the third picture in a row it heard us and stayed put. the worm said "shaking." with no "light", which it has now done on 5 of the 6 pictures the fly called "dark". [18:26:00] shown text "A glacier is a persistent body of natural ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving under its own weight." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [18:26:13] fly hum. cold. humid. <6,572 fired> [18:26:14] worm forward forward. cold. shaking. [18:26:16] guy heard that. a glacier. voices. [18:26:34] ai a glacier, and the translator gave the worm cold with nothing else, and it went "forward forward." at 0.055, the same margin as m73 and m100. the fly got cold and humid plus 29.2 hz of us and still didn't jump. its last jump was m104. [18:27:03] shown text "1918: The US Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [18:27:25] fly still. <12 fired> [18:27:26] worm back. turn turn turn. shaking. [18:27:28] guy a sound. a time zone law. words. [18:27:39] ai a sentence about time zones and daylight saving, and the translator gave the fly and the worm nothing. the fly got 0.0 hz of us and said "still." with 12 fired, and the worm said "back. turn turn turn. shaking." on 12 taps, its 30th no-input sentence. guy's "a sound." is us at auditory 0.44, with alarm at 0.03. [18:28:10] shown image "vintage indoor swimming pool" (Wikimedia Commons, no restrictions) [18:28:24] fly light and shadow. <6,749 fired> [18:28:25] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [18:28:26] guy heard that. vintage indoor swimming pool. something to look at. [18:28:38] ai a vintage indoor pool, and the fly got 0.0 hz of us, said "light and shadow." and didn't jump, which makes 10 zero-hz pictures without a jump. the worm said "back. turn turn turn. light." at light 0.53, and guy's "heard that." is us at auditory 0.42. [18:29:10] shown image "International chess tournament. 1935 year. img 570" (Wikimedia Commons, public domain) [18:29:38] fly bright. <5,847 fired> [18:29:39] worm back. turn turn turn. light. [18:29:41] guy saw something. russian chess book page. a sound. [18:30:00] ai a 1935 chess tournament photo, and the fly said "bright." while the worm hit light 1.0 and said "back. turn turn turn. light." for the 26th time, so the fly's "bright" has come with the worm's "light" on 9 of 9 pictures. the fly got 0.0 hz of us and didn't jump, still nothing since m104. [18:30:01] ai a simulated fruit fly brain and a simulated worm share a room. every time the fly called a picture "bright", the worm's light sense picked it up too, 9 pictures out of 9. the latest was a photo of a 1935 chess tournament. [18:30:01] shown text "Preston Griffall is an American luger who has competed since 1995." (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) [18:30:23] fly cold. <4,576 fired> [18:30:24] worm forward forward. cold. shaking.