Life has many adjacent possibilities – a myriad of potential ‘nexts’ that are equally possible, but not equally desirable.
We borrowed the term ‘adjacent possibilities’ from evolutionary science. When the Earth was first formed there was a finite list of elements present, flowing and bubbling and colliding together. Within this primordial soup, there were thousands of potential combinations of atoms that could lead to new elements.
The new element-forming collisions were the ‘adjacent possibilities,’ those results that could possibly happen next. Life eventually emerged from the primordial soup after numerous generations of ‘adjacent possibilities’ had created the ‘adjacent possibility’ of a single-cell organism.
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