ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the Hard Problem of consciousness as it arises for dualists and to describe a possible solution to it. The main questions that require the development of dualism concern the relation of qualitative events to physical events. The main idea of the response is that it is a law of nature that complexity of the kind found in neural causes of sensations results in instances of simpler properties. Integrated information is a balance of specialization in subsets of a complex with easy communication of results in specialized subsets to other parts of the system. And in Giulio Tononi reminds us that “the heart of Integrated Information Theory is the claim that an experience is a maximally integrated conceptual structure”. To get high integration, parts of a system must be causally interconnected. The view is rather that the causal laws governing the production of sensations by neural events have a definite time interval built into them.
