World Ribbons

Chapter 14 - World Ribbons Portent The conventional metaphor for breaking out of a paradigm is thinking outside the box. The allusion is that the walls of the box block a view of what is outside the box. This is harder than it looks, it requires inspired guessing, and ruthless pruning. Most ideas are…junk, one can find oneself not just out of the box, but off the table and onto the floor. Usually, the current box does present some clues about how to do this, unsolved problems that focus our a...