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Seth mounts a rich and persuasive case that human consciousness cannot be understood without life’s distinctive machinery – autopoiesis, allostatic control, predictive processing under the free-energy principle, and substrate-entangled dynamics. I agree that this undercuts the expectation that humanlike consciousness will “come for free” with more intelligent machines. However, we should also be cautious about drawing extrapolations from features of biological consciousness – even essential features – to the possibility of exotic forms of consciousness in artificial systems.