Jaegwon Kim's causal exclusion argument entails that any emergent deity would either be causally epiphenomenal or reducible to prior physical states, disqualifying it as genuinely divine.

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Causal exclusion argument(in philosophy of mind): An argument that says if the physical world is already sufficient to explain everything that happens, then mental events (like thoughts or feelings) can't be doing any additional work in causing things—they'd be redundant.
Causally epiphenomenal(one of the two unacceptable options for an emergent deity): Unable to cause or affect anything; existing but having no real impact on the world, like a shadow that doesn't actually change anything.
Emergent(as used in philosophy of science and systems theory): Something that arises from simpler parts working together, where the whole has properties that the individual parts don't have on their own.
Genuinely divine(the status at stake in the argument): Truly having the qualities we associate with god or gods, such as being ultimate, transcendent, or beyond physical explanation.

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