🧠 Creature Brain Demo

A 26-neuron spiking brain, evolved by computer, foraging live in an arena. Green dots are food, red dots are hazards that sting. The brain runs the champion genome — the same weights that scored 122.3 foods / 5.5 stings over 15 long validation lives.

📖 Read the full write-up: how the brain works, how it was evolved, and every experiment that tried (and failed) to beat it

⏱ Time 0s 🍏 Food eaten 0 ⚡ Stings 0 📈 Fitness (food − 6×stings) 0 🌍 World seed 9101

Live spikes — what the brain is doing right now

Food eyes
Hazard eyes
Hidden
Motors

This is the real controller, not a cartoon: Hodgkin–Huxley neurons, the same fixed sensory→hidden wiring, the same looming hazard channel and flinch reflex as the validation sim. For browser speed the neuron rate curves are precomputed into a fine lookup table (0.05 mV steps, interpolated) instead of evaluating exponentials every step — same equations, about 3.6× faster in testing. A life here runs the same physics — only the world seed is new. The champion's full story, numbers, and the failed attempts to beat it are in the write-up.