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  1. Temporal Paradoxes

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    Bootstrap Paradox (Information Paradoxes)
    Also known as the ontological paradox, this occurs when an object or piece of information is trapped in a causal loop, existing without ever having been created. The object has no point of origin in the timeline, violating the principle of conservation of conceptual entropy.
    The persistence of bootstrap objects is directly related to their Structural Ambiguity Measure ($\Phi$). Highly complex or mathematically redundant items (like class…