This asks the question, would we be the same person if we were to upload our consciousness into a computer? Just how much of ourselves is because we have bodies?

It may be that consciousness is an efficient way to manage stimulus. I don't think there will ever be a conscious computer unless we construct hardware that can think and not simply do computations. A cat is conscious. I can visualize what it would be like to be a cat. I can't do the same for a computer.

Have you seen the Hudson river school painters? They were able to make realistic paintings much like this, but they were also very aesthetically pleasing. This is well made, but it's ugly. You got the technique down, now you just have to get creative and make it beautiful.