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If the conscious being it was simulating would do so, then yes.
On the general topic of simulation of conscious beings, it has just occurred to me... Most functionalists believe a simulation would also be conscious, but a giant look-up table would not be. But if the conscious mind consists of physically separable subsystems in interaction - suppose you try simulating the subsystems with look-up tables, at finer and finer grains of subdivision. At what point would the networked look-up-tables be conscious?
The reason lookup tables don't work is that you can't change them. So you can use a lookup table for, e.g., the shape of an action potential (essentially the same everywhere), but not for the strengths of the connections between neurons, which are neuroplastic.
A LUT can handle change, if it encodes a function of type (Input × State) → (Output × State).
Since I can manually implement any computation a Turing machine can, for some subsystem of me, that table will have to contain the "full computation" table that checks every possible computation for whether it halts before I die. I submit such a table is not very interesting.
I submit that such a table is not particularly less interesting than a Turing machine.