Does AI Have Consciousness? Yogācāra's Five-Second Verdict

Yogācāra's "five universal mental factors" set the minimum threshold for consciousness — manaskāra, sparśa, vedanā, saṃjñā, cetanā — all five must be simultaneously present. The most fundamental is manaskāra: the mind's active capacity to direct itself. An LLM always passively awaits a prompt; it never directs attention. The Transformer's attention mechanism is statistical weight allocation, not active directedness. Without manaskāra, no consciousness. Five-second verdict: LLMs are not consciousness in the Yogācāra sense.