If some phenomenology emerges out of a prior relationality then that prior reality is phenomenological as well, the two are intimately related but in a way that seems discontinuous only from the posterior worlding. It is not dead matter giving rise to life since what is thought of as dead matter consists of natural kinds and hence already possesses all the marks of consciousness. The posterior level may be richer in degrees of freedom but this is only a numerical increase; ontologically is is all the weaker for it and is mostly barred from recognising the prior as mind in a more eminent sense than its own. To recognise it would defeat the purpose of emergence, or in other words, emergence is precisely that break in recognition.