No it's not, you cleary are misinterpretting the article. >we defined an emergent ability as an ability that is “not present in small models but is present in

No it's not, you cleary are misinterpretting the article. >we defined an emergent ability as an ability that is “not present in small models but is present in large models.” models are taken (because there is no other way) as black boxes and the only comparison is made between the models not between a model and it's subsystems (because again noone knows the "sub-systems" of a model, those are just some derived weights that can not be ascribed any meaning). this is precisly the 2Mpx camera and the 12Mbpix camera comparison not the fluid dynamics vs particle movements comparison.