In the fabric of knowledge we call science, there was a rent here, a hole. It was filled by young enthusiasts not burdened by wise old men. This gap made me wonder about the space of science.
Scientific knowledge is a parallel distributed system.
It has no center, no one in control. A million heads and dispersed books hold parts of it. It too is a web, a coevolutionary system of fact and theory interacting and influencing other facts and theories. But the study of science as a network of agents searching in parallel over a rugged landscape of mysteries is a field larger than any I've tackled here. To deal fairly with the mechanics of science alone would require a larger book than I've written so far.