Koan, you have fallen victim to the unoriginal sin of reductionism!
Physics tells us how individual atoms and molecules move, but it is unable to explain they interact with each other.
Hence chemistry, which explains how atoms and molecules interact with each other, but chemistry is unable to explain life.
Hence biology, which is able to explain how atoms and molecules combine to form life, but biology is unable to explain how the mind works. (BTW, that is sociobiology's mistake.)
Hence psychology, which is able to explain how the mind works, but is unable to explain how society developed.
Hence sociology, which is able to explain how the interaction of human being produces society.
The thing is, you can't work your way back down that ladder and still retain the chains of causation that define science. By making the claim, you join a centuries-long list of failed attempts.
(BTW, in each case as you work your way up the chain I described, each of the new factors I described that is unable to be explained by a particular branch of science is, wait for it, an example of emergent phenomena.)
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