It all depends on what you think it qualifies as being able to think or even feel, I may argue that there needs to be pain that is transmitted by a nervous system of some sort to really be able to feel emotions or even self-awareness and the feeling of empathy.

We can certainly achieve the illusion of a machine that can feel these things but I don't think we can make a machine really feel, really experienced human-like emotions, neither we should, what would we gain from it? I think absolutely nothing good.

Great post! It really made me think, thank you!