[danbruc]

I agree insofar as I think we will eventually be able to build a consciousness machine or at the very least I see no fundamental barrier to it. But that explains not at all why we have a subjective experience. You probably don't think a huge pile of memory chips has any subjective experience in the general case, experiencing what it is like to be a pile of memory chips.

Nonetheless you and I believe if we just wire the memory chips together in the right way and load some specific bit patterns into them, then the pile of memory chips will suddenly go »Holly shit, I am consciousness being inside of an enormous universe!« But the pile of memory chips will not just say this, no it will be truly aware of it.