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Would creating a complete computer simulation of the human brain prove the Church-Turing thesis?

According to Wikipedia, the Church-Turing thesis "states that a function on the natural numbers is computable by a human being ignoring resource limitations if and only if it is computable by a Turing machine."

If we made a complete simulation of the human brain, that would imply that a Turing machine can do everything that a human brain can do. Wouldn't that prove the thesis?