This raises an important dichotomy. Philosophers with this interest discuss “weak emergence,” which is where no matter how cool, ornate, unexpected, and adaptive an emergent state is, it is still constrained by what its reductive bricks can and can’t do. This is contrasted with “strong emergence,” where the emergent state that emerges from the micro can no longer be deduced from it, even in chaoticism’s sense of a stepwise manner.
