Time Travel and Self-Consistency: Implications for Determinism and the Human Condition.
In this paper I examine a recent scientific claim that travel into the past, so long as a ‘consistent’ trajectory is followed, may be possible. I then argue that the possibility of such travel has unexpected implications for the free will-determinism debate. In particular, human existence may be, at...
| Publicado en: | Ratio Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 271 - 279 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep1999
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