Exactly, even Leibniz and Newton had this argument in the 17th century, after coming up with Calculus concepts independently. There's a name for this phenomeno

Exactly, even Leibniz and Newton had this argument in the 17th century, after coming up with Calculus concepts independently. There's a name for this phenomenon: "the adjacent possible". Covered in this book - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence:_The_Connected_Lives_of_Ants,_Brains,_Cities,_and_Software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence:_The_Connected_Lives_...