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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When I worked at a factory where they had simple manipulators raging from the elaborate servo-motor multi-axis-rotating ones to the pneumatic 3-axis linear machines with binary end-position switches, I actually started to look differently at the nature of what I earlier referred to as living/acting/thinking.

These were rather deterministically acting machines with austere feed-back loops, yet I now fail to grasp how thy are that very different from something "living", with the obvious exception that in most of the cases here there was no talk of "learning"... but neither is there with bacteria (though some [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090617131400.htm] may argue that simple on/off mechanisms conditioned by natural selection may be considered such).

To make things simpler let us compare them with viruses: tirelessly doing their job (expressing their nature) - interacting with the environment around them if the conditions allow it (there is electricity, the circuits are ok, and there is something to operate on, etc..).

Now viruses are not by popular consensus considered "life" - but to continue my argument... could one of you, perhaps, present what one considers worthy of being called "life" (I feel both too tired to copy-paste from articles or recall its the generally accepted definitions - so feel free to also extrapolate your own definitions and present one's own views on the subject).

tbc/