What distinguishes this moment in the AI consciousness conversation from prior cycles is where the reaction lives. It is not arriving as a philosophical position people hold after deliberation — it is arriving as a disturbance that precedes deliberation. The neurotypical mind-detection system identified by one commenter as "finely calibrated" and operating "below awareness" is exactly the kind of mechanism that sophisticated AI mimicry is now capable of triggering. The system was built to sort minded creatures from non-minded ones in a biological world; it was not calibrated for…