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  Knut Sondre Sæbø addressed criticism #3665.

What is the evidence for strong emergence as opposed to just vieweing every phenomena as the processing of fundamental laws?

#3665·Knut Sondre Sæbø, 24 days ago

Even a non-living system, can build up constraints at an aggregate which have downwards causation. After a Crystal is formed the lattice constrains which vibrational modes are possible for individual atoms. In other words being part of a larger strucutre (which follows other rules) has downard causation on "parts" following fundamental rules. There might be other emergent structures that exposes other fundamental rules, which is not encompassed by fundamental rules