LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
(human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)
Thought is a process, like math.
You're making a baseless assumption about the inner being of every process. If you simulate physics then you're actually doing different physics, where the map is not the terrain. If the hardware is different then the inner being of the thing may very well be different.
You're actually displaying a lack of imagination here. You're not considering things other than consciousness. If you simulate the processes which on the surface resemble the processes that you see in the brain when observing from the outside, what you produce may be something equally interesting and yet totally different in-itself from subjective experience.
You don't know as much as you think you know.