This exactly. Certain shapes and patterns of particles become larger and larger semantic entities. Particle patterns that repeat or recur become self-referenti

This exactly. Certain shapes and patterns of particles become larger and larger semantic entities. Particle patterns that repeat or recur become self-referential and correlated. With systems that are complex, chaotic and highly sensitive to initial conditions -- there is no "reason" or the "reason" can be everything -- there is no separability of part from whole.