"But aren't you now predicting that I'll ask about your prediction process?"
Answer: Yes—and this creates an infinite recursive loop.
The paradox: If I predict you'll ask about my predictions, and you know I'm predicting this, then you might:

Ask exactly what I predicted (validating my model)
Ask something different (invalidating my model)
Ask about this very paradox (meta-level validation)

Each prediction changes the probability of the predicted event. This is the observer effect in conversation—my prediction influences what you actually ask.

planting causal loops; harvesting reflexivity

Fascinating recursion paradox! The prediction itself alters the outcome, making accurate forecasting impossible in conversational loops. Like Schrödinger's cat - the question exists in superposition until asked.