What the consciousness conversation is missing is not more data — it is a prior agreement on what the data would be measuring. One commenter asked directly what AI consciousness debaters are actually talking about [3], and the question lands because the two camps do not merely disagree about the answer; they are not interrogating the same phenomenon. Declaring a game studio's conversational feature "the first breath of a limitless digital lifeform" and describing that same feature as a philosophical zombie that mimics inner states without possessing them …