It's worth noting that a fly connectome doesn't have learned synaptic weights or dynamics from the actual fly brain -- it's basically a directed graph of nodes, where each node is a LIF neuron. So worries about it being "conscious" are frankly (more than a bit) overblown.
I feel genuinely unsettled by many of these fly connectome experiments. The one where some guy put it in fruit fly heaven was chill. Most of them are neutral (flying in an empty void) and not especially bad. Beat Saber fly is probably so transformed from the state of fly-ness that it is no longer a fly that experiences fly suffering, maybe OK. But we're playing with a weird kind of fire here and it reminds me of ultra-edgy 4chan/SomethingAwful shitposting in the early 2000s before humanity had morals. If we do this so cavalierly with more-conscious connectomes we will really deserve whatever we've got coming
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Would a fly simulation that instead solved for the Hodgkin Huxley equations be conscious