The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became ComplexWhen the whole is greater than the sum of the parts indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents something utterly new and different we call that phenomenon emergence. When the chemicals diffusing in the primordial waters came together to form the first living cell, that was emergence. When the activities of the neurons in the brain result in mind, that too is emergence. In The Emergence of Everything, one of the leading