Instead of something extricable, I imagine a series of processes that, due to specific conditions, results in some new process that has distinctly different characteristics from the originating process.

E.g. snowpack melt -> mountain stream -> waterfall

A waterfall is a vastly simpler system than a living organism, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the origin of life has a flavor similar to waterfall formation.

I like the idea that all phenomena we observe are emergent in a similar way.