"Quantity has a quality all its own." (Misattributed to Stalin, probably related to the Marx quote in the paper. https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Stalin&old...)

Some stray observations.

"More is Different" is also the slogan of the Nanyang Technological University annual conference on complexity. There are some phenomenal presentations there, many on YouTube.

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/ias/upcomingevents/complexity12/Pages/...

Related to the issue of emergent phenomena is:

Polanyi, Michael. "Life transcending physics and chemistry." Chemical & Engineering News 45.35 (1967): 54.