This paper is beautiful: the adjacent possible consists of all those things (depending on the context, these could be ideas, molecules, genomes, technological products, etc.) that are one step away from what actually exists, and hence can arise from incremental modifications and recombinations of existing material. Whenever something new is created in this way, part of the formerly adjacent possible becomes actualized, and is therefore bounded in turn by a fresh adjacent possible. In this sense, every time a novelty occurs, the adjacent possible expands nature/srep/2014/140731/srep05890/full/srep05890.html#affil-auth A more digested view here: washingtonpost/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/08/01/the-mathematics-of-discovering-new-things/
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