And it is a good point. Perhaps what they meant by that "difference in kind vs degree" was just such a (hypothesized) phase transition. The frantic scramblings

And it is a good point. Perhaps what they meant by that "difference in kind vs degree" was just such a (hypothesized) phase transition. The frantic scramblings that happen around phase transitions are often fascinating [0] and worth awarding an explicit name on either side, however fuzzy the inflection point. Fair enough. [0] https://www.quantamagazine.org/beyond-the-bell-curve-a-new-universal-law-20141015/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/beyond-the-bell-curve-a-new-u...