Conscious Simulation

Unless we live in a simulation (or if we ourselves are somehow simulations), the following statement should have clear implications for anyone talking about AI having emotions or consciousness (by the always predictably insightful and sometimes provocative Anil Seth): "A simulation of the digestive system does not actually digest anything. A simulation of a rainstorm does not make anything actually wet. If we simulate a living creature, we have not created life. In general, a computational simulation of X does not bring X into being — does not instantiate X — unless X is a computational process (specifically, an algorithm) itself." Is this thing conscious? ⤵️