The Slime Fallacy

RE:
artificial intelligence
RE:
machine consciousness

The slime fallacy is the idea that we will never be able to create real intelligence and consciousness in a machine. Only organic materials are capable of producing consciousness.

Is this a fallacy or not?

If we could reverse engineer the human brain and emulate all its processes in a super-computer how could we argue that it was not self-aware?

Is there some reason that it is impossible to reverse engineer the human brain?