But the rough implementation details are pretty fundamental to what is being asked! I don't think there are any logical reasons why a different set of atoms ca

But the rough implementation details are pretty fundamental to what is being asked! I don't think there are any logical reasons why a different set of atoms cannot be an equivalent mind with identical conscious experience (my mind constituted different atoms yesterday, yet perceives continuity!) though I'm unconvinced of the existence of an entity capable of engineering it (and agnostic on what permutations of atoms are and aren't capable of representing brain state). But that's a very different question to "is it possible for humans to create equivalent consciousness by writing high level code which symbolically represents the molecular behaviour we think is pertinent to thought as electrical signals as a binary code state machine" which is often implied by such a question, the answer to which I think is a fairly confident no. It's commonly suggested that scepticism about the ability of the human mind to be replicated in silicon suggests "something special" about it; when rephrased as a question about actually building it it becomes more of a question about whether there's "something special" about our theories of computation and i/o pattern matching that transcends fundamentally different chemistry, as well as the mother of all engineering problems.