‘The morning my copy of Steven Johnson’s Emergence arrived, I also took delivery of my quarterly copy of Journal of Consciousness Studies with the theme “Emergence” boldly etched on the cover. The latest issue of this new periodical is taking no prisoners in its effort to extend the frontiers of emergence, ranging from the innermost recesses of the human brain to the outer reaches of cosmos. Is consciousness an emergent property? Is mind an emergent property? Is God an emergent property?’ Sunday Times of London books