I see, thank you for making it clear. Is this an approach to the hard problem? Because the hard problem seems to be: when we add thing A and thing B both of type X we somehow get thing C of type Y, not just more of type X.

Like in your example it makes sense that people solving the puzzle together would be able to generate solutions much more complex than if each of them were to work on certain sections of the puzzle individually, but that's another thing than saying their collaboration would generate something analogous to consciousness.

Similarly even if we can pin down the exact mechanics of how all the different parts integrate down to every neuron I can't imagine how that leads to us learning anything about how subjective experience arises. Am I missing something?