Comment by pixl97

>not some magical word if you don't know how something works.

I'd disagree, emergence is typically what we don't understand. When we understand it, it's rarely considered an emergent concept, just something that is.

>They don't offer a scientific explanation.

Correct, because we don't have the tooling necessary to explain it yet. Emergence as you stated came from simpler concepts at first, for example burning hydrogen and oxygen and water emerges from that.

Ecosystems are an emergent property of living systems, ones that we can explain rather well these days after we realized there were gaps in our knowledge. It's taken millions and millions of hours of research to piece all these bits together.

Now we are at the same place in large neural nets. What you say is pointless is not pointless at all. It's pointing at the exact things we need to work on if we want to have understanding of it. But at the same time understanding isn't necessary. We have made advancements in scientific topics that we don't understand.