Strong emergence picture is kind of suggested by this motto of the wholes greater than some of its parts, but it's vague enough that you're not sure. I'm still thinking about this myself, but i think that whether or not strong emergence happens at all depends on what your two levels are. The microscopic level is going to be quanum field theory, or atoms, or something like that. And in that case, i think strong emergence just doesn't happen because we know what the lower level things are. They obey local equations of motion. What happens to the electron is only influenced by what's happening in its immediate neighborhood of space and time. But sometimes you areinterested in cases where