Creative Natural Understanding with AI.
/What I cannot create, I do not understand./ — Richard Feynman
A personal computational environment for learning through creation. Digital twins of natural systems — brain circuits, mountain valleys — sculpted from sparse data through the iterative cycle of Measure, Model, Manifest, Evaluate, Refine.
Not a product. A research notebook made visible.
What does it take to build a biologically faithful digital twin of an entire brain? Not a schematic. Not a wiring diagram. A computational object where 139,000 neurons fire, 50 million synapses transmit, and 8,453 cell types express their distinct electrical personalities — all constrained by the actual anatomy. BRAVLi is a literate codebase for reconstructing and simulating the Drosophila connectome. The fruit fly brain is the first organism for which a complete synaptic-resolution wiring diagram exists (the FlyWire dataset). This makes it the ideal testbed for the MayaLucIA approach: start from sparse but high-quality measurements, exploit the interdependencies that physics and biology impose, and grow a dense, simulatable digital twin. ...
Moundains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez In the mountains of truth, you will never climb in vain. – Henry David Thoreau The heart of the mountains is like the heart of our existence. – Peter Matthiessen I will not let my feet touch the ground until I have reached the summit. – Tenzing Norgay The mountains are calling, and I must go. – John Muir ...