Paradoxes are Engines The funny thing about paradoxes, they've
never been mystifying to me. I suppose it's because I don't
engage in pure logic much, except for occasional fun. Even in
programming, pure logic is a trick to me; a useful way to XOR or
NOR something. In my mind, there's not enough room for another
option, so it "flips", but if this flipping flips the
surrounding things and has to flip back again, well then I've
just made a loop. If I continue the loop with time control in
the middle, then I can have nice little engine of sorts.* Add
user input, and I have a video game. In short, paradoxes to me
are engines of sorts. Once you start them, they keep going,
fueled solely by the artificial constraints placed upon them. So
to me, what I wrote above is both true and false, neither true
nor false, either true or false, a bunch of BS and absolutely
cosmic truth, and a bit of clever wordplay all at once. I have
yet to find a "contradiction" that isn't solvable in some
fashion. It can be very USEFUL to believe in
paradoxes-as-significant because it can spurn on great amounts
of prodigious work. [ie - that's why I consider paradoxes an
engine]
