I mean, it sounds like they&#x27;re saying that the physical (and thus uploadable) brain is not itself conscious, but only a highway for thoughts to ride on and a storehouse for memories. That clearly implies that there&#x27;s a non-physical thing that is actually conscious, whose existence kr4 takes on &quot;gut feeling&quot; despite lack of evidence.<p>If consciousness is an emergent phenomenon of the physical properties of the brain, then surely it will also emerge from a sufficiently accurate simulation of those physical properties.