wonderings

if you perfectly simulated, atom by atom, a human being in a room, would they be conscious? sure, they could calculate and have internal thoughts. they could feel emotion and have opinions. they would THINK they were just as conscious as everybody else. but would they really have a sort of "point of view" the same way we do? or would their existence be like that of a calculation machine, grinding gears and sending signals but not actually, you know, seeing out of their own eyes?

your own self and brain is just atoms making meat and chemicals and blood and shit, just a meat computer calculating and sending signals. so the theoretical 1:1 simulation or replica is just as "alive" as any human, unless you have some notion of a soul