[ghransa]

To state it's a turing machine might be a bit much but there might be a map between substrates to some degree, and computers can have a form of consciousness, an inner experience, basically the hidden layers and clearly the input of senses, but it wouldn't be the same qualia as a mind, I suspect it has more to due with chemputation and is dependent on the substrate doing the computing as opposed to a facility thereof, up to some accuracy limit, we can only detect light we have receptors for after all. To have qualia distinct to another being you need to compute on a substrate that can accurately fool the computation, fake sugar instead of sugar for example.