Physical properties? What if those kind of properties of physical materials are needed in cognition?

The problem is simulations of the brain are not "machines", they are algorithms, e.g. they assume everything is happening at the information processing level.

To use your own example, we can design an algorithm to simulate making coffee. But the algorithm can never make coffee -- unless it's fitted and connected to a coffee making apparatus.

Or take something being "wet" for example. We can emulate the motions and powers in play in liquids, but not "wetness" in the sense of the physical property (moisture etc). If something depends on it, e.g. the emulation actually watering some actual flowers, then it will fail. An emulation can only water emulated flowers.