the ticket that imploded

Here's the thing though: paradox exists, can be easily demonstrated with pen and paper or charmingly simple illustrations like Xeno's race. Reality bears up admirably well despite this, the piece of paper emblazoned with =i swear to god the other side of this thing is true= on one side and =that's a fuckin' lie, man= on the other does not, in fact, explode and take phenomenological reality with it. There's a theory that our minds in fact hold the fabric of the universe together in the face of paradoxical mathematical collapse, but nobody has a very good theory for how we acheive this, and why it doesn't let us keep airplanes from crashing, or get us laid more often. Does the universe, in fact, run on cognitive dissonance, or our response to it? Or is cognitive dissonance, in fact, our response to what the universe runs on? Or both? Or neither?

klik if you demand tedious explanations of every little thing.