But emergent properties are everywhere. Consider Conway's Game of Life. A few basic rules and you end up with remarkable, emergent complexity. The game of Go

But emergent properties are everywhere. Consider Conway's Game of Life. A few basic rules and you end up with remarkable, emergent complexity. The game of Go is another beautiful example. The same is true of any number of phenomenon. Break them down to their basic elements and it's not clear how the emergent properties arise, and yet they do. So is the brain just "meat"? Maybe. But that doesn't preclude incredible emergent complexity.