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Why would we assume subjective experience can't be recreated digitally?

Inert "code" can't suffer, of course. But assuming we accept the materialistic view, what reason do we have to believe that a mind in a simulated body has any less subjective experience than a mind in a "real" body?

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"what reason do we have to believe that a mind in a simulated body has any less subjective experience than a mind in a "real" body? "

That reality is seemingly indefinitely complex and any simulation we have, very simplifying. I am pretty sure, for emotions and co, it takes a bit more sophisticated simulation - if it can be achieved digitally, at all.

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