Abstract
Combining elements from different disciplines, I sketch a few different arguments for constructing a strong ontological emergence that is at the same time materialist, mechanistic, non-deterministic and anti-reductionist. To do so, I will closely look at the emergence of new forms of organization and properties in connection with codes that emerge during the (spontaneous) evolutionary process.
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