Welcome

Paradigms Lost exists as a collection of authors who contribute thoughts, feelings, ideas, and research as well as comments and feedback to each other as we individually and collectively explore our paradigms. Paradigms lost is a bit of a playful idea that suggests we may have lost or are looking for our paradigm(s).

A paradigm could be defined as: a philosophical or theoretical framework or a pattern of thought that serves as the container in which our assumptions, beliefs, theories, etc. about how the world works exist in.

It might also be claimed that what we are attempting is an intentional paradigm shift, or, since it could be argued that this a continuous (and also sometimes sudden) process that we are documenting the process of our paradigm(s) shifting.

Paradigm paralysis 

Perhaps the greatest barrier to a paradigm shift, in some cases, is the reality of paradigm paralysis: the inability or refusal to see beyond the current models of thinking [9]. This is similar to what psychologists term Confirmation bias. (from wikipedia)