[actually_a_dog]

I think you would enjoy the Wolfram Physics Project. They've been able to get quantum mechanical behavior to emerge from some very simple mathematics. It's also not the type of mathematics that is traditionally used to describe quantum mechanics, which is more descriptive and mysterious than emergent.

I don't really know if ultimately there's any "there" there, and Wolfram is pretty widely regarded as a bit of a blowhard, but take a look and let the work speak for itself.

https://www.wolframphysics.org/