The AI consciousness conversation is not a debate — it is a collision of at least four separate arguments that have been assigned the same name. The philosophical argument concerns the hard problem: whether any physical system, biological or silicon, can generate subjective experience. The behavioral argument concerns what models actually do when they perform affect, sycophancy, or apparent self-reflection. The cultural argument concerns what the existence of highly capable AI systems means for human identity, creativity, and value. And the existential argument uses AI consciousness as a proxy for…