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The perspective that the mind is a sandbox—a bounded space of perception, memory, reasoning, and imagination within which we construct our reality. We cannot think outside our cognitive sandbox; we cannot experience unmediated reality. But within these bounds, we can build elaborate models, explore counterfactuals, imagine alternatives, and create worlds. Cognitive Sandboxism embraces both the limits of cognition and its extraordinary generative power. The sandbox of mind is where all other sandboxes are built.
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