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A child looks at a bicycle and sees an ice cream truck. Not because they don't know what a bicycle is. They know perfectly well. But knowing what something is has never stopped a child from seeing what else it could be. The bicycle is a bicycle — and it is also, simultaneously, completely and without contradiction, an ice cream truck. A spaceship. A horse. A time machine. This is not confusion. It is one of the most sophisticated things a human mind can do. Researchers who st

There was a time when you built worlds before breakfast. A blanket over two chairs became a cave, a kingdom, a spaceship depending on the hour. The garden was a jungle. The staircase was a cliff. A cardboard box was never just a cardboard box. You moved through ordinary rooms the way explorers move through unmapped territory — with total conviction that what you saw was real, and that what happened next mattered enormously. Nobody taught you how to do this. You simply did it.