Their experience of it is different depending on what medium you choose.
Maybe. But the central experience is the same. Maybe there’s a difference between experiencing consciousness as implemented on a real brain versus consciousness as implemented inside a simulator. So long as it is possible to implement consciousness in different media, simulations make sense. If you’re really a simulator’s subroutine and not a physical brain, you wouldn’t feel the difference, because you wouldn’t know the feeling of having a real brain.
Maybe. But the central experience is the same. Maybe there’s a difference between experiencing consciousness as implemented on a real brain versus consciousness as implemented inside a simulator. So long as it is possible to implement consciousness in different media, simulations make sense. If you’re really a simulator’s subroutine and not a physical brain, you wouldn’t feel the difference, because you wouldn’t know the feeling of having a real brain.