Doll houses all the way down

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"Doll houses all the way down" is an expression of the problem of infinite regress.

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The saying alludes to the mythological idea of a doll house inside another doll house, like Matryoshka dolls.

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In the meantime, until the bigger house (+1) becomes available —

How about creating tiny doll houses (-1)

Which go inside normal-size doll houses (0)

With a tiny doll figurine of you, using nano-tweezers to assemble individual molecules into yet smaller doll houses (3)?

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