Insights into vision from interpreting a neuronal wiring diagram
Sebastian Seung
Neuroscience Institute and Computer Science Dept, Princeton University
In 2023, the FlyWire Consortium released the neuronal wiring diagram of an adult fly brain. This contains
as a corollary the first complete wiring diagram of a visual system, which has been used to identify all
200+ cell types that are intrinsic to the Drosophila optic lobe. About half of these cell types were
previously unknown, and less than 20% have ever been recorded by a physiologist. I will argue that
plausible functions for many cell types can be guessed by interpreting the wiring diagram.