Keyword: adjacent possible

A new special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B—born out of a Santa Fe Institute workshop on the origins of life—brings together leading voices addressing the theoretical, experimental, and philosophical challenges of understanding how life emerges from nonliving matter. From Oparin and Miller’s pioneering prebiotic experiments to the frontiers of synthetic biology, […]

In my book, The Entangled Brain, I proposed that it is productive to view the brain and a complex, entangled system, one in which the parts dynamically assemble into coalitions that support complex cognitive–emotional behaviors (Pessoa, 2022a). An entangled system is a deeply context-dependent one in which the function of parts (such as a brain […]