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Hi Jan
Only if reductionism works everywhere.
An emergent phenomena can not be reduced to smaller parts and still work as the original phenomena!
One liter of hydrogen gas can be subdivided into two half liter of hydrogen gas and stil behave as hydrogen gas. This volume halving can be done many time - and gas still behaves as the original volume hydrogen gas.
But if you disassemble a hydrogen atom in an electron and a proton, the two particle separatly will not behave as the original atom.
The (obvious) conclusion is, the atom is an emergent phenomena. A hydrogen and lithium atom behaves differently. A H2 molecule behaves differently than a lonely hydrogen atom.
The emergent QM connection Quantum entanglement (Albert Einstein "slang": Spooky connection) only exists until one of the particle are "observed"/measured.
Reductionism works very fine, but at quantum level, reductionism looses ground.
An atom is "magic", a lighted neon lamp (plasma) is "magic". A star like our sun is "magic", because it changes radically, if you subdivide it many times, and at some point it will be very dim. If you divide a living standing human vertically, it will not be a living human any more
- ergo a human is "magic" (emergent phenomena)!
(I am not a physicist, so if there are any physicists that acknowledge it or not, I am listening)
/Glenn