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> Emergent is just a way for an atheist to cover up that they have no idea.

We don't. I don't think many try to cover that up.

Emergence just means that a system has properties not apparent from the parts going into it. It's not a tool to handwave away that fact and ascribe it to "emergent hocus pocus", it's a tool to frame the search for why that happens.

> just a way for an atheist to cover up

Ah, and there we have it.

Emergence is just complexity. The problem with complexity is it takes a lot of time and massive amounts of effort so determine what it is in the computation (digital or quantum) that produces the effect, and is commonly not reducible.

Bringing in an imaginary character in order to explain the complexity is just a failure of logic.

Emergant properties are well known and described thing in math and science.