{"id":1042,"date":"2026-03-16T17:06:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:06:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:06:53","slug":"primal-layers-building-a-digital-brainstem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"Primal Layers \u2014 Building a Digital Brainstem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/reefwing_Biological_neural_networks_utilize_inherent_sparsity_751ec14a-a831-48ed-81be-d4af48476458_3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/reefwing_Biological_neural_networks_utilize_inherent_sparsity_751ec14a-a831-48ed-81be-d4af48476458_3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/reefwing_Biological_neural_networks_utilize_inherent_sparsity_751ec14a-a831-48ed-81be-d4af48476458_3.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/reefwing_Biological_neural_networks_utilize_inherent_sparsity_751ec14a-a831-48ed-81be-d4af48476458_3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/reefwing_Biological_neural_networks_utilize_inherent_sparsity_751ec14a-a831-48ed-81be-d4af48476458_3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/reefwing_Biological_neural_networks_utilize_inherent_sparsity_751ec14a-a831-48ed-81be-d4af48476458_3-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The inspiration for <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.gopubby.com\/primal-layers-building-a-digital-brainstem-9f8f3a55b91d\">this article<\/a> is Mike the Headless Chicken. The story of Mike is one of the more bizarre episodes in history, an accident that became a rural American legend. In 1945, a farmer in Fruita, Colorado, attempted to butcher a chicken for dinner but missed the jugular vein and left part of the brain stem intact. Amazingly, the bird survived and continued to walk, perch, and even attempt to peck for over 18 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inspiration for this article is Mike the Headless Chicken. The story of Mike is one of the more bizarre episodes in history, an accident that became a rural American legend. In 1945, a farmer in Fruita, Colorado, attempted to butcher a chicken for dinner but missed the jugular vein and left part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,45],"tags":[69],"class_list":{"0":"post-1042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ai","7":"category-embedded","8":"tag-embedded-ai","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}