Human beings do not consciously decide whether another entity has a mind — they feel it. The neurotypical social cognition system operates below the level of deliberate thought, flagging 'genuinely minded' versus 'performing mindedness' before any argument can be mounted. What several voices in the current AI consciousness conversation are independently arriving at is that this system is not equipped for AI that sits in the space between pure mimicry and something else. The uncertainty this produces is not philosophical discomfort — it is a breakdown in a cognitive…