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In this essay, I will argue that we have good reason to suspect that the S&amp;D argument given by David Chalmers rests on a limited conception of S&amp;D properties, what in this essay I\u2019m calling extrinsic structure and dynamics. I argue that if we take recent insights from the complexity sciences and from recent developments in Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of Consciousness, that we get a more nuanced picture of S&amp;D, specifically, a class of properties I\u2019m calling intrinsic structure and dynamics. This I think opens the door to a broader class of properties with which we might naturally and scientifically explain phenomenal experience, as well as the relationship between syntactic, semantic, and intrinsic notions of information. I argue that Chalmers\u2019 characterization of structure and dynamics in his S&amp;D argument paints them with too broad a brush and fails to account for important nuances, especially when considering accounting for a system\u2019s intrinsic properties. Ultimately, my hope is to vindicate a certain species of explanation from the S&amp;D argument, and by extension dissolve the hard problem of consciousness at its core, by showing that not all structure and dynamics are equal.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e23091226","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,20]],"date-time":"2021-09-20T07:52:14Z","timestamp":1632124334000},"page":"1226","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Not All Structure and Dynamics Are Equal"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1057-641X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Garrett","family":"Mindt","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Elizabeth R Koch Research Fellow, Tiny Blue Dot Foundation for Consciousness Studies, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison, Madison, WI 53719, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Stich, S.P., and Warfield, T.A. 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