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In which the ground's ungrounding ungrounds the ground

There’s a trope in science fiction that artificial intelligences, being intransigently logical, are vulnerable to being stymied, accelerated into meltdown or driven to distraction by paradox and recursion. It’s the premise of some of Asimov’s most enduring stories about robots breaking down while attempting to reconcile the irreconcilable, necessitating…