That would be a form of strong emergentism, which is kind of magical in that properties that don't exist and can't in principle be predicted from earlier states

That would be a form of strong emergentism, which is kind of magical in that properties that don't exist and can't in principle be predicted from earlier states come into being. But it's not like we get to make the rules of what's real. Something about existence is deeply mysterious, so why not consciousness?