A summary of More is Different by the great P. W. Anderson. All errors and omissions are mine entirely. All good stuff is down to Mr. Anderson. One of the breakthroughs that kickstarted modern science wasn’t a scientific discovery, but a philosophical one. Reductionism, the idea that you can learn about higher-level systems by breaking them down into their atomic constituents and studying those instead, fuelled the accelerating engine of science in the 19th and 20th centuries. But reductio...
