Incidentally, don't get me wrong, I'm not mocking the belief that consciousness could be simulated. It's both comforting and plausible but it still remains exactly that, a belief. One can argue all day quite enjoyably about Dennett's "Consciousness ignored" approach versus Penrose's "ooh, it's all weird spooky quantum things which we don't know what they are but ooooooh" versus "it's your eternal soul stupid" -- but it's currently in the realms of philosophic debate not science.