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petri dishes, and or the idea that burdock burrs could be anything but
annoying, we encounter radical changes in the evaluation of what's
interesting. In the \emph{d\'enouement}, what was initially
unexpected is found to be both explicable and useful.
Importantly,
serendipity is not the same as luck. It involves making sense of
something unexpected, in an unanticipated way. Although computational
processes often evolve in unexpected ways
\cite{minsky1967programming}, the bridge from an unexpected discovery
to a useful new invention poses several difficult challenges for
computational modelling.
Van Andel \citeyear{van1994anatomy} -- echoing Poincar\'e's
\citeyear{poincare1910creation} (negative) reflections on the potential
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programme `serendipity' it cannot be called serendipity
anymore}.'' \cite{van1994anatomy}
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We However, we believe that serendipity is not so mystical as such statements
might seem to imply, and in Section \ref{sec:discussion} we indicate
that ``patterns of serendipity'' like those collected by van Andel
are likely to applicable in computational settings.