Mossy Hollow

Waking up the town…

Mossy Hollow

Mossimo

feeling …

…

energy

tummy

warmth

damp

…their story ›

food

fat reserves

energy

warmth

caches remembered …

larder …

What's in his larder

Where he's hidden things

His recent thoughts

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Mind

A squirrel has a mammal's brain, much like ours in plan: a wrinkle-free cortex over the top (movement, sight), a big sense of smell up front, a hippocampus for remembering places, and a cerebellum behind for balance. Each part below is a real part of Mossimo's program doing that job, and every glow is it working, live. His heart and breathing are the real numbers his warm body runs on. His actual thinking runs on a computer, so the parts only a computer squirrel has float above.

A wood mouse's brain is a lab mouse's brain: the 38 regions shown are real ones, from the Allen Mouse Brain Atlas, in the atlas's own colours, inside the outline of the whole brain. Each glows as busy as Mossimo's program says it is, from what he's doing and from his chemistry, and the lines are the strongest real connections between them, measured in lab mice. His chemistry is kept in real units, each signal rising and falling at its real speed.

A real snail has no single brain. It has a ring of nerve clusters (ganglia) round its throat, each with its own job, and only tens of thousands of nerve cells in all, some so big that researchers have named them. Mossimo's body is built the same way: each part below is a real part of his program doing that job, and every glow is it working, live. His heartbeat, breathing and brain chemistry are real numbers his body runs on (serotonin sets his pace, a racing heart makes him hungrier, each breath dries him a little). His actual thinking runs on a computer, so the parts only a computer snail has float above, joined to the rest.

His body

Sensingsmells, sights, his body
Rememberingwhat comes to mind
Choosingweighing what to do
Doing…

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Quiet for a moment

Each part, the last 3 minutes

Just now

The parts, and what each one does

The map

The town, and the places beyond it that Mossimo has found. Now and then a faint trail appears, leading somewhere he hasn't been yet (marked "?"). Tap a place to go there.

Mossy Hollow

Mossimo

Offer or ask

Questions he's answered