the connectional account of curiosity also challenges the common-sense view of possibility as solely related to growth. While nodes can be added, they can also be removed or changed, and while edges can be added, they can also be broken and rewired

Scientific progress, then, is not unidirectional but multidirectional and its characteristic discoveries both add new information and reformulate old information. Scientific curiosity, in this context, drives individual scientists and scientific communities to fill internal and external network cavities with informational nodes and conceptual edges

Sometimes, however, possibilities are quite old—longstanding and patient. And likewise, some curiosities are ancient—questions that have been either long-touted or long-buried. How might we dispel, then, the novelty bias to which curiosity and possibility are so regularly subject? How might we better appreciate curiosity and possibility wherever th

Without curiosity, possibility cannot appear on the scene, and without possibility, curiosity has no scene to work with in the first place. The two make one another possible.

Art, as Bloch said, is a laboratory of possibilities. Indeed, other worlds become possible as and insofar as we curiously reformulate the networks in our heads—and in our hearts.

Potentialities for growth, then, are available in all directions—toward what has never been thought and back to what must be rethought.

The concept of possibility has long been intertwined with the discourse of curiosity. The way things might be can disturb the way things are, but we have to be ready for it. Curiosity provides that readiness.

Although science may proceed through the experimental pluck of one scientist or another, it is ultimately a collaborative endeavor. Similarly, speculative fiction is read by the singular reader but experienced by a fanbase and sometimes a whole culture (or cultures).

In the process of construction and deconstruction, knowledge develops in immediately contiguous spaces—that is, along the adjacent possible edges, both inside and outside of a knowledge network structure. To think curiously, then, is to inaugurate that organic process of actualizing adjacent epistemic possibilities.