Surya Ganguli cites Anderson's classic 'More Is Different' at COLM panel
madhavsinghal_ · x · 2026-10-12
The author shares the classic 1972 P. W. Anderson essay More Is Different, recommended by Surya Ganguli during a COLM panel. Key thesis: "The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe" — the hierarchical emergence idea in complexity science, often invoked when reasoning about scale effects and emergent capabilities in large models.
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