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}}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'', as such, until Kauffman coined it in in 1990s), but also surprisingly profound and counterintuitive, and challenging to the hideous [[reductionist]] worldview. | }}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'', as such, until Kauffman coined it in in 1990s), but also surprisingly profound and counterintuitive, and challenging to the hideous [[reductionist]] worldview. | ||
The “[[adjacent possible]]” is the ''as-yet unexplored'' territory made directly accessible by the existing state of knowledge (or system configuration). Development that’s just the proverbial door-knock away. As such it’s a limit on immediately available progress: you can only knock on doors you can see, not the ones beyond those immediate doors (who knows how many doors lie beyond!) | The “[[adjacent possible]]” is the ''as-yet unexplored'' territory made directly accessible by the existing state of knowledge (or system configuration). Development that’s just the proverbial door-knock away. As such it’s a limit on immediately available progress: you can only knock on doors you can see, not the ones beyond those immediate doors (who knows how many doors lie beyond!) | ||