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{{a|design|}} | {{a|design|}}A concept coined by {{author|Stuart Kauffman}} that contemplates the [[path dependency]] of [[evolution]]ary or iterative processes — dynamic [[systems]] and the like — and which is at the same time obvious enough to go without saying (though it wasn't said until Kauffman coined it in in 1990s), but also surprisingly profound and counterintuitive, and challenging to the [[reductionist]] account of the world. | ||
The “adjacent possible” is the as-yet unexplored territory made directly accessible, and explorable, by the existing state of knowledge (or system configuration). It us a limit on immediately available progress. But pushing into any adjacency ( by incrementally expanding the system in itself creates ''further'' adjacent possibilities. | The “adjacent possible” is the as-yet unexplored territory made directly accessible, and explorable, by the existing state of knowledge (or system configuration). It us a limit on immediately available progress. But pushing into any adjacency ( by incrementally expanding the system in itself creates ''further'' adjacent possibilities. | ||