While humans display many emergent characteristics, the notion that human nature can be wholly explained by emergence faces some challenges. First, reducing consciousness and subjective experience to simply the outcome of cellular interactions may overlook qualities like intentionality, reflexivity, and moral deliberation that many argue cannot be fully captured by emergent processes alone. Second, emergent explanations often rely on statistical or probabilistic models to explain collective phenomena, which might be insufficient for describing the rich, qualitative aspects of human thought and culture. Finally, attributing human behavior solely to emergent processes risks neglecting the role of individual agency and conscious decision-making that appear to shape and transform collective social and cultural realities in ways that go beyond simple aggregation of lower-level interactions.