To see an analogy here is to see that there is something fundamentally biological about consciousness. But this is very unlikely to be true. For example, we can

To see an analogy here is to see that there is something fundamentally biological about consciousness. But this is very unlikely to be true. For example, we can see how there is something fundamentally watery about rain. And so a rainstorm without water will not leave us wet, thus is not a genuine rainstorm. But what is the analogous biological substrate necessary for consciousness? Searle has never clarified. But we know a lot about the biology of the substrate of consciousness, and none of those properties seem relevant to consciousness. There doesn't appear to be any fundamental property of neurons that is relevant to conscious experience. The only thing of relevance is its organization and thus its causal or computational structure. But these properties can be reproduced arbitrarily well in a general computer.