This analogy just begs the question. The issue of consciousness is whether it is purely a functional/dynamic state of a system or whether it is a basic atomic k

This analogy just begs the question. The issue of consciousness is whether it is purely a functional/dynamic state of a system or whether it is a basic atomic kind that cannot be further decomposed. For example, a simulation of carbon isn't carbon but a simulation of disorder is in fact disordered in some sense.