If I were to initiate a discussion on the origin and evolution of the automobile, a reductionist bottom-up philosophical outlook may predispose me to thinking of the evolution of an automobile system as having originated in the independent goals of mass production replication of bolts, nuts, copper wires, glass, rubber, leather, plastic, metal parts and fittings; all having somehow independently pooled resources to build kick-starters, piston and cylinder components, crankshafts, rack and pinion steering wheels, which all somehow, in turn, aggregated into the first automobile; the automobile being an incidental sub-goal in the primary overall goal of promoting the mass...