Conscious AI hypothetical

Suppose we have a conscious computer program; a program which, when executed, is conscious. We save the memory states and IO from the program at every stage of its execution, and then replay each state, one by one, on a second computer, without actually executing the program. Is the second computer conscious too?

In other words, if a computer is conscious, does its consciousness derive from the instructions it executes, or from the series of states it transitions between?

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Maybe it does... but than it would mean that we would need to conjure up more dimensions (or something similar) into our standard models of the universe we know use (sure its only sane to admit that we will find out much more about the universe than we do now - dimensions of feeling - or whatever we will wish to call them, perhaps)...

Working with simple models that we do have one can still describe a very complex phenomena rather easily as a scaled up problem solving machine - and I choose to believe it simply because its elegant...

Quite like writing programs in the austere syntaxes of LITHP.

The only problem here is that although i find lisp quite elegant there's not really much to do with it to get things done.