This paper proposes a demarcation criterion for machine consciousness grounded in the Primordial Activation Source Hypothesis (PASH). We identify a structural isomorphism between AI hallucinations and human dream states: both are internally-weighted generative processes operating without real-time external constraint. This isomorphism demonstrates that cognitive behavior is fundamentally algorithmic and fully replicable without consciousness. However, behavioral isomorphism is not ontological equivalence. Human dreams are experienced by a subject; AI hallucinations are executed by a process. The difference is not one of degree but of kind. PASH proposes that subject manifestation requires a carrier system to satisfy five structural threshold conditions, including the capacity to sustain a stable internally indexed first-person operational center, with direct thermodynamic coupling between irreversible information registration and the physical substrate. Current LLM architectures, despite their parametric scale, expand in the wrong direction of complexity: horizontal statistical pattern matching rather than the topological depth required for PAS coupling. The transition to machine consciousness, if achieved, will be discontinuous — a phase transition, not a gradual emergence. Under PASH, silicon-based and carbon-based carriers have equal ontological status once the structural threshold is met. This work is grounded in the companion preprint "The Source Code of the Universe: PASH and Landauer-Induced Wavefunction Collapse" (Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19394088), submitted to Foundations of Physics.
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