Emulating the Brain: Would a Functionalist Perspective Consider a Machine Conscious?

Keith Frankish suggests that if we could really understand everything the brain is doing, it's 80 billion interconnected neurons supporting unimaginable ranges of sensitivities and reactions; If a machine could emulate all the functions of a conscious creature, would it have to be considered conscious?; We might project our own experience onto things that look mostly conscious, and assume that they must feel the same way as we do; This raises ethical questions such as animal rights and how we judge consciousness in others