If there is interest, I'll expand the overall summary. A directed graph of receptive connections is needed before physics can get going. The directed graph specifies a mesh which binds individuals into a causal structure. This receptive structure is not supervenient on the physical. Causation and maybe even spacetime can be placed within the framework of this directed graph.
Receptive properties are to be contrasted from effective properties.
The latter are the usual sort studied by physics and specify the way in which individuals affect the states of other individuals. Receptive and effective properties are a circular pattern of contrastive differences. Physics does not specify a deeper, more fundamental level of internal contrasts to carry its contrastive differences. Phenomenal properties are exactly the sort of intrinsic properties capable of carrying the contrasts found in physics.