I don’t understand what is supposed to be so bad about “mysterious” things. Take the distance between two oranges: if you look at a single orange, it doesn’t tell you anything about how far it should be from another. And special relativity implies that there is no difference between a situation where one orange is moving and the other isn’t, and the situation where the movements are reversed. So the distance between two oranges can be changing, even though apparently neither one is changing more than the other, or at all, when you just sit and look at one of the oranges. So the distance between two oranges seems pretty mysterious to me.
Also, I’m not sure anyone actually says that emergent things “inevitably happen” due to a large quantity and randomness.
I don’t understand what is supposed to be so bad about “mysterious” things. Take the distance between two oranges: if you look at a single orange, it doesn’t tell you anything about how far it should be from another. And special relativity implies that there is no difference between a situation where one orange is moving and the other isn’t, and the situation where the movements are reversed. So the distance between two oranges can be changing, even though apparently neither one is changing more than the other, or at all, when you just sit and look at one of the oranges. So the distance between two oranges seems pretty mysterious to me.
Also, I’m not sure anyone actually says that emergent things “inevitably happen” due to a large quantity and randomness.