On a personal meatbag level emotions are magical and something ineffable.
From a scientific stance, chemical make brain go happy or sad and there's nothing special or magical about that. Every emotion we feel is because it was evolutionarily valuable for us to do so.
When your afraid you can choose to ignore the fear, but you are still afraid and it has physical effects that can be measured. There is at least a trinary state of possible outcomes and as the situation space becomes more complex and solutions drift apart on all 3.
Lmao.
Assuming it’s possible to perfectly simulate a human brain
The definition of the word “simulation” is:
> A simulation is the artificial imitation of a real-world process, system, or event using a model
As we know, “all models are wrong; some models are useful”.
A “perfect simulation” is, then, an oxymoron.