Let's stipulate that it isn't like anything to be a rock, or a plant, or, just by itself, a running computer. It may be like something, however simple, to be a worm, and it's very probably like something to be a turtle, say, or a bat, or a dog. That is, it can only be "like something" to be something if the thing we're imagining has a so-called "inner world" – or, in the theory developed here, has a certain internal control structure that makes use of an inner world. So in this sense it would be entirely appropriate to say that it would be "like something" to be a machine that possessed such a control structure as well, a binary control system with attention.
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