The structural problem the AI consciousness debate has reached is not about competing evidence — it is about competing unfalsifiabilities. Denials of AI consciousness routinely embed assumptions about biological substrate that no test addresses; affirmations embed assumptions about functional equivalence that no experiment confirms. As one commenter on Bluesky observed, a definition that no test can ever reach is not a claim about AI at all [2]. It is a definitional preference dressed as a finding. When both sides operate this way, the resulting conversation has no mechanism for resolution…