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I find this deeply unethical.
None of the neurons have weights attached, meaning the signals aren't processed in any way that would support consciousness.
Regardless, now imagine having Bad Apple rendered on your neurons by an Eldritch God.
You shouldn't. It's just a neural net shaped like a fly brain. There's no biochemistry simulation past that.
Eventually we can reduce the human brain down to this. Is it ethical to use that blueprint for experiments? We’ve got to be better than this, I hope. And it has to start before we get there.
No, we can't. The biochemistry needs to be there. The fly brain is a discretized abstract model of the fly brain with none of the weights it would need to be an actual (discretized abstract) model.
whatever simulation its in, it would be the only "reality" it knows. With no knowledge of anything else its in best reality it "knows" of, provided its even possible to have anything else going on beyond actions made by computer that are based on some nebulous ruleset that the fruitfly brain runs on.