moonbreams

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   by moonbreams 4y ago

   Well granted they're solving quadratic equations, but neither are the adults. For instance, if you expose larvae a rewarding stimulus like sugar along with an odour, they will later be attracted to that odour. That is by definition lea
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   by moonbreams 4y ago

   larvae behave, they learn, they forage, they do have a brain.
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   by moonbreams 4y ago

   The sell with this kind of research is that doing it will lead to order of magnitude gains in complexity - compare the time it took to sequence the first fruit fly genome with the time it takes today
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   by moonbreams 4y ago

   That's a different paper announcing a large repository of genetic expression patterns. This is the link for the connectome announcement: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add9330