Experimenters are digitizing worm brains using them in robots. Maybe they're learn that most insects are essentially robots or just organic machines. Then they'll learn that most humans are robots and just organic machines. And probably that consciousness is just an illusion. :-D
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2851663/Are-brink-creating-artificial-life-Scientists-digitise-brain-WORM-place-inside-robot.html
