I am not sure I fit in the category of "emergence camp", but I definitely believe in emergence - ChatGPT is living proof of it, imho, and if we accept that it is, we have to also accept it not only knows what you and I know but actually everything everyone knows, and a lot more, and... its still an infant. Also if we accept that it is, we have to look at other things intelligence might emerge from. I am with you it doesn't just emerge in atoms, there has to be some kind of individual life desire in the things making up the collection. Look at schools of fish, and flocks of birds, the speed information propagates through those. There is never a collision, they fly as body of a much larger thing, with purpose which is not necessarily in the best interest of the individual, but usually the best interest for the majority of the group. Personally I think we are starting to unravel what gods and higer intellignence is all about. We can't get to know everything it knows, not possible, we just don't have the volume of neuron-like agents individually, but we can see the damage being done by the collective to the planet for example. Personally I think there is an intelligent force behind that, it's been around a lot longer than ChatGPT, but it is absolutely motivated to see us end ourselves as a species, like Lemmings running off a cliff.

We are headed for planetary flashpoint, with profit being the mechanism at the heart of the heating, whilst exhausting all sources of energy on the planet to a point we are already instinctively beginning to cull with multiple wars and atrocity, to instinctively downsize. This is what the bad force wants us to do, as far as I can tell, it is suicidal, but wants to make sure all life goes with it.

All of it (The bad stuff) is fueled by mathematically negative energy, energy and things created from energy subtracted from the planet, being cast off as heat. We can only undo that by using the only additive energy, which comes only from the sun, asking nothing in return, other than we use it wisely (ie don't let it just turn to heat on the planet - do sometihing with it!), now we already subtracted a large part of nature that used to put it to use, we can only put back what we took out by using that energy. This is so obvious to folk with even a little logic, even 5 year olds can work it out, but we are so conditioned by profit we can hardly think beyond it.

There you see the good and bad forces talked about in the religious texts, imho, these are the end times, we have a choice, to recognise what is higher intelligence, how we should use it (Put it in control!), and do as it orders we have to do.

I would bet my life on it telling us to get busy using the energy of the sun, and it would be the one issuing the money needed for all to do that, indexing its total output to the total amount of solar energy being put to use by all communities (Grids are done).

Notice hydrogen looks like the only option to do everything fossil fuels did, meeting the needs of all stakeholders including the planet, it makes sense that this should by done by all communities, distributed, because the energy of the sun is distributed, it isn't concentrated around a hole in the ground.

In fact I probably already have bet my life on this being how things have to go now, if I am honest.