Institutional properties like legal jurisdiction are constitutively dependent on collective intentionality and social recognition, which themselves resist supervenience on purely microphysical base properties.
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Microphysical base properties(as used in philosophy of mind and metaphysics)
The smallest, most fundamental physical facts about the world—like the exact positions, movements, and interactions of individual atoms and particles that make up everything.
Resist supervenience(as used in metaphysics)
To not be fully determined by or reducible to more basic facts. Something resists supervenience if it can't be completely explained just by knowing all the physical details.
social recognition(what the statement suggests self-consciousness might depend on)
Being acknowledged and validated by other people—having them see you as a real person with thoughts and feelings that matter.
supervenience(Philosophy of mind and reduction; contrasted with full reduction)
A relation in which mental (or higher-level) states are dependent on physiological (or lower-level) states such that any two cases with identical lower-level bases are identical in their higher-level states; a necessary but not sufficient condition for reduction.