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PublishedMay 19, 2026 at 4:00 AM
The Alien Space of Science: Sampling Coherent but Cognitively Unavailable Research Directions
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arXiv:2603.01092v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scientific discovery is constrained not only by what is true, but by what is cognitively available to the researchers currently exploring a field. Many directions are coherent in light of the literature yet unlikely to be proposed because no existi
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