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One descends into the ground on a splayed double helical path stepping over four kinds of thyme to smell the giant nostrils of a double nose put back to back. The fragrance wafts upward from each step. The fortuitous encounter of an upside-down double nose and the pun "Double Thyme" leads to the phrase "A Nose By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet." A conclusion? The discovery that two joined noses equals a fibreglass female torso. This illustrates the general scientific principle recently enunciated by complexity scientists as a truth of emergence in the universe. The Nobel laureate Philip Anderson put it succinctly in a famous 1972 article. In contrast to the Modernist dictum "less is more," the principle of emergence is "more is different." When things are combined more meaning emerges, a most benevolent principle | |||||||||
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