Or, History is a step-function---V.

[Mark Kohut]

>From the blog of a philosopher of science....the notion that societal complexity creates newness......in Pynchon's case almost always bad. Discuss.
One view that has been taken about the causal properties of social structures is that they are emergent: they are properties that appear only at a certain level of complexity, and do not pertain to the items of which the social structure is composed. ...