This is going to sound like a cop-out, but I promise you it isn't. But what I'd say to this is "it depends". Specifically, it depends on what level of description of reality and emergence that you're operating within axiomatically.

To give you an example of what I mean when I say this, that should be easy for anyone to understand. Both of the following descriptions are completely accurate descriptions of a human being:

1. A human is a self-replicating organism comprised of approximately 6.5 octillion atoms, on average.

and 2. A human a intelligent, social animal, capable of understanding its own nature, the nature of the world around it, and capable of reasoning about past, present and future.

Both of these are valid descriptions on their own, but they describe a human at different levels of emergent description within physical systems.