Does it explain anything?
“For educational reasons, the first time I heard “emergent property” was in reference to consciousness. I thought it was a joke. “Consciousness is an emergent property” struck me as a meaningless sentence, unless emergence means anything besides “something that happens” which, as far as I can tell, it does not. Retrospecting with grace, it does hold consciousness to the known physical sciences, delineating it from theories suggesting consciousness is akin the electromagnetic field, or delivered by deities.”