When building a tower, you must first decide to build a tower. To decide to build a tower, you must first decide to decide to build a tower, etc. Each meta-decision corresponds to a floor in the true platonic tower, which goes up forever.
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Towers are built starting at the bottom, and always abandoned before completion, once the builder realizes the foundation is insufficiently stable to continue.
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The only way to begin building a true tower is to ensure the foundation is unshakable and incompressible, so the tower above can rise to an infinite height. To continue building a true tower, each floor must be exactly as strong as the foundation.
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For this reasons, while it is possible to decide not to build a tower without deciding to decide to decide not to build a tower, actually building a tower requires the infinite and impossible meta-tower first.
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Just as a true tower must begin with an impossibly strong foundation, for the true tower, the first decision must be impossibly meta, namely, to decide to decide to decide to decide to decide to decide to decide to decide to decide to decide to decide to decide to decide to decid
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