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“More is different.”
— Philip W. Anderson, 1972
In his 1972 Science essay “More Is Different”, physicist Philip W. Anderson argued that increasing scale and complexity can give rise to qualitatively new behavior.
Emergence begins with the assumption that this idea can also be applied to knowledge work. It investigates foundational concepts, recent research, and new developments, then reviews and organizes the material into an expanding collection of knowledge documents. By connecting these documents, Emergence creates a foundation for discovering relationships, broader patterns, and new questions that would not be visible within any one document or field.