Paradox (or self-contradiction) is present, in seed form, in even the simplest of machines, in even the most basic of tools. There is paradoxicality even in machines as simple as a plough or water wheel. It may not be in...
A closed world is a world that has a tight lid on it - the qualification here being that we don't know that there is a lid. We never see the lid, we never see the limits that are holding...
The one thing we can't ever do is ‘manage our thinking’, despite what we might be told to the contrary. Managing our thinking just isn't going to work, not ever. The reason we can't manage our thinking in the way...