text: **Idealism and cosmopsychism**
  
  A traditional solution to the hard problem is idealism, according to which consciousness is fundamental 
  and not simply an emergent property of matter. It is claimed that this avoids the hard problem 
  entirely.[120] Objective idealism and cosmopsychism consider mind or consciousness to be the 
  fundamental substance of the universe. Proponents claim that this approach is immune to both the hard 
  problem of consciousness and the combination problem that affects panpsychism.[121][122][123] 
  
  From an idealist perspective, matter is a representation or image of mental processes. Supporters suggest 
  that this avoids the problems associated with the materialist view of mind as an emergent property of a 
  physical brain.[124] Critics argue that this then leads to a decombination problem: how is it possible to 
  split a single, universal conscious experience into multiple, distinct conscious experiences? In response, 
  Bernardo Kastrup claims that nature hints at a mechanism for this in the condition dissociative identity 
  disorder (previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder).[125] Kastrup proposes dissociation as an 
  example from nature showing that multiple minds with their own individual subjective experience could 
  develop within a single universal mind. 