Blue Brain is scientists' latest attempt to make a conscious program. However, approaches to achieve this goal (for which I cannot find a suitable adjective) suffer from theoretical problems.

The motive forces for human actions are need and desire, according to Maslow's hierarchy. We need basics like food and water and safety and we desire to reproduce - the Reptilian mind at work, as per Clotaire Rapaille; when those are satisfied, we deal with limbic emotional needs like affection; finally, higher impulses of the cortex. As a computer has none of these needs as it lacks a human body, where would these motive forces come from to compel it to do anything, to be anything other than a rock?