Mandatory link to Wikipedia's article on Nagel's What Is It Like to Be a Bat? [0]

> Nagel famously asserts that “an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is like for the organism."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F

Of course... but so can any appropriately constructed control system, and so can any living organism which senses its surroundings to some degree.

I guess if the stem-cells are taken from you as a donor then they would be genetically identical to you as much as twins are genetically identical individuals?