But you've now shifted the "how" question. (Or I misunderstood the original.)
It is not a question of how there is emergence, why there is magic. The answer to that is is because systematic interactions at a low level can create higher level playing fields.
So the "how" is now a technical question, what is this system, how complex is it, and at which levels can we understand it. And since this system has been learning how to avoid erasure by entropy or by competition for 3.5 billion years, it has searched quite a possibility space, namely 2^1277500000000, if we assume making a copy every day.
It is not a question of how there is emergence, why there is magic. The answer to that is is because systematic interactions at a low level can create higher level playing fields.
So the "how" is now a technical question, what is this system, how complex is it, and at which levels can we understand it. And since this system has been learning how to avoid erasure by entropy or by competition for 3.5 billion years, it has searched quite a possibility space, namely 2^1277500000000, if we assume making a copy every day.