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Dualists are not necessarily emergentists.
Emergentists typically view emergent higher level properties as unpredictable from the smallest constituents of a system and some minimal set of their relations. Which is more or less to say that the h-l property contains more information than its base. So there is little evidence that emergentists are engaging in map-territory confusion, or trying to reify simple h-l properties.