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Are we just a pattern? Of patterns? https://paragraph.xyz/@mirrorandloom/the-observer-paradox
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Interesting piece, thank you for sharing! 🤍 Is the final question rhetorical? Because what comes before seems to suggest that there is no end to recursion. My intuition is that the limit is only that which we are able to perceive. 100 $degen
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Title drives at your question: "The mirror and the loom" refers to a key imagery from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "The Lady of Shalott," where the Lady is forced to observe the outside world only through a mirror and then weave what she sees onto her loom, symbolizing her isolation and inability to directly experience reality due to a mysterious curse; the mirror represents her restricted view, while the loom represents her artistic expression through weaving these reflected images.
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Said curse sounds like the nature of being a woman in Victorian times—nothing especially mysterious about it! Can't say I'm much of a Tennyson reader, but I love the rich symbolism you describe here. Feels like a Jungian take on Plato's cave allegory! More seriously, it's a terrific title.
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