One issue in the study of things like emergence is we don't agree on the definition. So part of what one should do if one wants to have a principal discussion about these things, is be a little bit more clear about what your definitions are. A famous disti between strong and weak emergence was given by a philosopher named mark bedau called weak emergence. O weak emergence is when, in principle, all the behaviour could have been figured out just by putting the lower level laws on a computer. And strong emergence is not that. Strong emergence is defined as something happens, but it's not what you would have predicted by put the lower level Laws of physics on the computer. It's something