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Re: time travel question - terminator
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Mon, 21 July 2003 14:25
 
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It is hard to evealuate counterfactuals on most time travel movies as they are inconsistent and entail contradiction. Terminator I is an example of a perfectly consistent time travel movie; 12 monkeys i belive is another. T2 (and thus T3) are not. The Back to the Future series are not.
In a consistent time travel story, if you travel to the past you are not 'visiting that time a second time around' or 'changing events'... it has already happened that you travel back in time, and that a later temporal part of you existed in the 1950s (or whatever). If, in the future, you travel back to the 1950s, it is true NOW that you do (did) and records etc would show it. Etc.
I am writing my honours thesis on determinism & free will, and time travel. If you are interested in this stuff, look up David Lewis' paper: The Paradoxes of Time Travel. It debunks many so called time travel 'paradoxes' and shows how you can have consistent TT stories - even accounts for freewill. Well, sort of. That's the bit I'm having trouble writing about, so if anyone feels like reading it and giving me their opinions go ahead!
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SPEEDCORE | Mon, 21 July 2003 14:07 |
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Stefan | Wed, 23 July 2003 09:13 |
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