Paradoxes, Strange Loops, and Cognitive Dissonance

There’s a pink one and a green one

And a blue one and a yellow one

And they’re all made out of ticky tacky

And they all look just the same

Little Boxes by Malvina Reynolds

• Our minds need to reconciles dissonance. So we paper over the story with a simple story. Even if there are inconsistencies
• Talk about cognitive dissonance
• Plato’s forms and how they relate to the world
• But paradoxes abound
• Godel Escher Bach. Loops in our lives.
• What is infinity?
• This is one of the reasons we struggle. There are inconsistencies in our world but we move past it.
• Getting sensitive to the inconsistency is a big part of how it starts to open up.