eli5: What is the bootstrap Paradox?
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Did you ever see Back to the Future ? Who “wrote” Johnny B. Goode in that ? Chuck Berry player it, and Marty learned it from him. But Berry only learned it from Marty.
It’s a paradox specifically related to time travel shenanigans.
It come from the impossibility of pulling oneself up by their bootstraps. Either I can pull up my bootstraps or i can be pulled up by my bootstraps, but I can’t do both.
Bootstraps means shoelaces here.
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