How is seriously considering your disconnected talk a "straw"? You literally speak you don't believe in atoms in multiple places or think humans have something more than atoms/physical structure. Then you claim its some not-allegory. First you ask if I do drugs, then it is not at all clear what relation the rest of what you said has to do with doing drugs or lucid dreaming. Then you claim to not believe in atoms. Then you do the muddle of claiming you need perfect knowledge and infinite precision to model or build a machine.

To your third para, I will ask if I write a "simulacrum" of a program that manages to factor large RSA primes consistently and quickly, does that program factor RSA? Another example, do you think if a software program does a FFT and a physical DSP circuit does an FFT doing something totally different? Consciousness could easily be supported on two entirely different forms of substrate. Neural nets can model almost any function, human brains are subject to physical laws which are also limited to Turing computable programs as far as our current knowledge goes, in case you somehow had a misconception of neural nets being weaker than they actually are.