I don't misunderstand. And if your comment has any relevance to the discussion, you're using it as an analogy to suggest that something like syntax can somehow produce semantics, which is impossible - actually worse, it's incoherent. It's an intellectual muddle. Obviously simple entities can compose into complex aggregates and produce net effects that no individual could on its own, but it doesn't follow that they can generate things that were not in power of these individuals to generate. That's my point. Otherwise, you are claiming that something can come from nothing.

> which is impossible - actually worse, it's incoherent.

If consciousness can emerge from neurons and life can emerge from chemical reactions then saying that "it doesn't follow that they can generate things that were not in power of these individuals to generate" is what is incoherent and intellectually muddled.