Problem
Assuming that consciousness is, in fact, the result of neural activity in the brain, and assuming that that activity can be duplicated in some other material context (like a computer), then would that mean that the computer, that is performing the same functions as the brain, would also be conscious. If not, then why not? People often point to things like emotion and creativity. However, both of those things would also be the result of material events in the brain and thus duplicated in the machine. What if we put this computer into a kind of robot so that it could sense and be mobile. Could we say that his being would be conscious?