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This doesn't address my confusion. Suppose I just wrote down on paper the states of a simulated brain at time t, t1, t2, etc. Would the model be conscious? Is it still conscious if I simulate step t1, and then wander away for a while?
My sense is that consciousness is a property of biological humans in the physical world and that it's not necessarily useful as a description for anything else. It's a social construction and probably doesn't have any useful summary in terms of physics or computer science or properties of neurons.
Consciousness is something that we each notice about ourselves.
(Or rather, "consciousness" is a philosopher's way of talking about that thing which we notice about ourselves that we can't directly notice about others, though we infer them about others.)
It seems to me that part of the question, then, is "What is noticing?"