> You can simulate digestion with a turing machine all you want, but that simulation wont digest any food. Because food is a physical item. Ideas and abstract

> You can simulate digestion with a turing machine all you want, but that simulation wont digest any food. Because food is a physical item. Ideas and abstract concepts are not and can be communicated in a format that's fully compatible with a simulated consciousness. There is no reason that wouldn't be possible aside from mechanisms that are, or at least appear, supernatural.