 But is it really true that the resources of neutral monism are too limited to “manufacture” awareness? Here it is instructive to reflect briefly on Russell’s changing ideas about awareness. Before embracing neutral monism, Russell defended a simple and very influential account of awareness: to be aware of x (a red sense-datum, say) just is to bear a special (simple and unanalyzable) relation to x—the so-called acquaintance relation. We have seen that Russell abandoned this account of awareness (see section  4.3.2  above). But perhaps it is possible to rebuild a structurally similar account of awareness within the neutral monist framework. In place of a simple (Cartesian style) subject or self, there now is a complex bundle-self (composed of neutral events). In place of a simple two-place relation of acquaintance, there now is a complex n-place relation obtaining between x (a red patch, say) and the various other events composing the complex bundle self of which the red patch is a member. And for S (the bundle-self) to be aware of x (the red patch) just is for x to bear this special n-place relation to x to the other members of the bundle that make up S. The overall shape of the two accounts of awareness is the same: a self bearing a special relation to an object. This suggests the following thought: if it is granted that Russell’s old account of awareness did shed some light one the question how experience enters the world, then why not accept that the new (neutral monistically reconstructed) account of awareness is equally illuminating. So if the quality/awareness gap had no force against Russell’s old account of awareness, then we should not expect it to have force against the neutral monistically reconstructed account of awareness.