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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I'm not entirely sure the way we understand this universe's physics would change too much. However, if we do get some conscious self-aware AI, we'd probably be able to much better understand the nature of consciousness, and if we ever become substrate independent minds ("mind uploading"), we'll probably be able to find out even more about our own minds and possible experiences through self-modification.