Your second paragraph makes some startling claims. While it's not entirely clear to me what you mean by them, they do seem in conflict with my own understanding

Your second paragraph makes some startling claims. While it's not entirely clear to me what you mean by them, they do seem in conflict with my own understanding of emergence, and also with TFA, which says: > More generally, I claim that the opposite of compositionality is emergent effects. The common definition of emergence is a system being ‘more than the sum of its parts’, and so it is easy to see that such a system cannot be understood only in terms of its parts, i.e. it is not compositional.