It's a digital simulation, there is no fly. A neural network, just like how an LLM is a digital neural network. It will never be alive or conscious, there is no mechanism for that.

Besides, the model is missing weights so it's not even a proper simulation.

Expected salary: a droplet of sugary water per day.

How long until we're searching for the hidden porn folder on the fruitfly brain PC?

Isn't the issue that we don't know how and why neurons fire? We can scan the brain all we want, but if we don't know how it actually works, then it doesn't matter.

Or fashion a working fly brain from redstone in Minecraft and make it fly

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.

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.

Brain rot comes for us all, human or fly.

Well at least that’s a version of hell you can win