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Time travel can really be mind-confusing. Great video analysis. Perhaps you could do second part, in which you disscuss Marvel Loki series. There is not only topic about time travel but concept about multiverse (alternative worlds).
Maybe the infinite loop is created the moment time travel to the past is initiated, but if it was never initiated then time would remain linear and no issues with free will arise. Just riffing off your infinite loop idea. I like how you're presenting various philosophical problems with the story I never thought about before.
Does Leibniz's Law only apply at the macroscopic level? Because I think it could be argued that at the microscopic level the time traveling characters are not actually identical because their heart rates, brain states, and other physiological aspects of them can't be absolutely identical at any given moment.
It’s easier to change your opinion of the past. Even if something dreadful happened, you have to make peace with it. You don’t know what kind of price you might have to pay if you remove something or alter it.
George, have you seen "Bodies"? It's a 2023 Netflix series from 2023, starring Stephen Graham, that deals with time loops and alternative timelines. I enjoyed it and I think you might too.
Great video. There are still some problems with your proposed solution though. So when you mentally travel from your 10-year-old self back to your older self, it can't just be that you wake up from a blackout with altered memories. Rather, all of reality will have had to have changed. So for other people who aren't engaging in this time travel, once you wake up from the blackout, all the appropriate changes should feel as if they have just instantly occured. How would other people experience this change? Would they also get new memories that fit the altered timeline?
Excellent analysis. I hate time travel movies somewhat less than movies centered around prophecies. While the former can be done right, though it usually is not, the latter is just lame and overdone.
Just finished watching this brilliant post. I have a question concerning going back in time. How would this work for something like the program QUANTUM LEAP? In this series, a man goes back in time (within his age span) but he doesn't go back into his history but others via mental time travel. Can you clarify this issue? It would be great if you could do a Quantum Leap post
You got the Terminator plot wrong. She was not pregnant when Kyle Reese got sent back. The terminator was sent back to kill Sarah and she didn't know she was pregnant till the end of the movie. John sent Kyle back because he knew Kyle was his father.
I mean....I can see the issues before I even say it...but if we're doing mental travel based on matching dna, it has to be an exact match? Can't be a direct ancestor? I actually have a couple theories for physical travel that solve the major paradoxes and don't necessarily create too many new ones. However, it would essentially be based on "magic ". I haven't found a way for them to scientifically make sense. Lol they're better than the magic diary though.
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I don't see why there would be an identity problem. We are constantly changing, even if it's on the molecular or quantum level. Therefore traveling 1 millionth of a second to the past and seeing yourself would not cause any identity problem. Both entities would have practically the same memories, but there is more to existence than what we remember.
@@elgatofelix8917What i meant was , Space is Physical Reality , but Time is a mental concept , quite useful for many many measurements, but is not physically real.
I disagree with you about the time travel in the butterfly effect. If you go back and change your past, I don’t think that there’s anything that would erase that previous timeline from your memory. I guess this is all theory though.
Wouldn't the mental time travel also suffer from the grandfather effect? If I send my mind back in time to stop me from buying an ugly shirt, not owning the shirt means there is no longer a reason for me to ever go back in time, so if I never go back in time to stop myself from buying the shirt means I do buy the shirt.
Your problem with the Terminator is one of assumptions. As Doc Brown says: you're not thinking fourth dimensionally. If you let go of the directionality of time and of the assumption that the future does not exist until the past and present lead into it, then all the answers are simple. Where did John's father come from before Kyle Reese came back? Why is there a "before"? In 1984, Kyle travelled back from the future. He was always there. You can plot the timeline produced by the movie on a chart (it would be better if it was a fourth dimensional plot, but I understand if you won't be able to make one), mapping out everything from the past through the 21st century, such that it's all there at once along that timeline. And then when you move your finger along the chart to 1984 and ask where Kyle came from; just look over to the 21st century and understand that that's where Kyle is up until the moment he travelled back, and that's where he came from. You say that that's fatalistic? That it cancels free will? Maybe. But that sounds more like a value system and a philosophy of life, rather than an existential requirement. Who says that there is free will? Who says that the world is not predetermined? As a philosopher, you should know better than to treat these assumptions as incontrovertible fact.
I think the only way time travel can make sense, is that we can only observe and not physically interact with the past. Maybe one would be like a ghost, in an partially overlapping dimension. You couldn't change anything but it would sure be useful in seeing the truth in historical events, and that WOULD have an effect on the present day.
I really like your channel - have subscribed. I love the simple analysis. For the last part of the ideal time travel story, upon return you say that the past events would have merged back with present time hence one wouldn't even have known they have time travelled, other than a recollection of a blank out. Every day we blackout into Deep Sleep. Could it be we might be time travelling?
#Side_Note: Earth travels through the universe at 1.3 to 1.6 MILLION miles per hour... Shouldn't this mean we are time traveling in a way via time dialation? Maybe this is why we never see or have met aliens? We are not missing them because of location of them but rather we are in a different time? This could be wild. Another thought. What does this idea say about us seeing the universe as "empty space"? LOL Is it empty? Or... is it empty sometimes? LOL I think I am seeing something. 😋
I think it’s annoying how people have made it a hobby to nitpick shit in time travel movies, it used to be done for fun like oh look at this little inconsistency but now people genuinely use that as criticism of the movie which is a shame, imo time travel movies you go with the flow of the experience through the characters, if the characters work and they story works who cares about little plot holes here and there, feels like the back to the future movies would’ve been hated if they came out today, modern audiences sucks, I call it the cinemaSins syndrome
He mentions in this video that he still enjoys these movies so this video isn't really a criticism of the movies as entertainment, but more just a philosophical exploration of the concept of time travel itself. Anyway, I think the hypothetical concept of a multiverse can explain away some of these time travel conundrums well enough.
the only way time travel make sense are with closed loop stories in a block theory of time universe. An event in 2024 casually explaining an event in say 1987 is plausible in at least there are no logical contradictions contained within
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Isnt Space and Time itself "Particulars", ie, within the Problem of the Universals ?
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Since we're on the subject of time, last time I was this early it was still "only two weeks to flatten muh curve"
Time travel can really be mind-confusing. Great video analysis. Perhaps you could do second part, in which you disscuss Marvel Loki series. There is not only topic about time travel but concept about multiverse (alternative worlds).
Thanks for the suggestion, we will look into this!
Maybe the infinite loop is created the moment time travel to the past is initiated, but if it was never initiated then time would remain linear and no issues with free will arise. Just riffing off your infinite loop idea. I like how you're presenting various philosophical problems with the story I never thought about before.
Does Leibniz's Law only apply at the macroscopic level? Because I think it could be argued that at the microscopic level the time traveling characters are not actually identical because their heart rates, brain states, and other physiological aspects of them can't be absolutely identical at any given moment.
yes it doesn't make sense to argue they are identical when then have different temporal characteristics
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It’s easier to change your opinion of the past. Even if something dreadful happened, you have to make peace with it. You don’t know what kind of price you might have to pay if you remove something or alter it.
Time probably doesn't exist. Look at how it's impossible to even imagine logical time
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Good question. I refuse to use Kindle.
But if it were released for sale outside $¢amazon I would certainly consider buying it.
George, have you seen "Bodies"? It's a 2023 Netflix series from 2023, starring Stephen Graham, that deals with time loops and alternative timelines. I enjoyed it and I think you might too.
Thank you for the recommendation, will check it out :)
Great video. There are still some problems with your proposed solution though. So when you mentally travel from your 10-year-old self back to your older self, it can't just be that you wake up from a blackout with altered memories. Rather, all of reality will have had to have changed. So for other people who aren't engaging in this time travel, once you wake up from the blackout, all the appropriate changes should feel as if they have just instantly occured. How would other people experience this change? Would they also get new memories that fit the altered timeline?
Excellent analysis. I hate time travel movies somewhat less than movies centered around prophecies. While the former can be done right, though it usually is not, the latter is just lame and overdone.
Just finished watching this brilliant post. I have a question concerning going back in time. How would this work for something like the program QUANTUM LEAP? In this series, a man goes back in time (within his age span) but he doesn't go back into his history but others via mental time travel. Can you clarify this issue? It would be great if you could do a Quantum Leap post
Thanks for the recommendation, something we will look into 😀
You got the Terminator plot wrong. She was not pregnant when Kyle Reese got sent back. The terminator was sent back to kill Sarah and she didn't know she was pregnant till the end of the movie.
John sent Kyle back because he knew Kyle was his father.
I mean....I can see the issues before I even say it...but if we're doing mental travel based on matching dna, it has to be an exact match? Can't be a direct ancestor? I actually have a couple theories for physical travel that solve the major paradoxes and don't necessarily create too many new ones. However, it would essentially be based on "magic ". I haven't found a way for them to scientifically make sense. Lol they're better than the magic diary though.
Please make video on must know terminology before starting philosophy.
Thank you so much for these posts. With the use of movies, books etc these posts help me understand certain aspects of philosophy. You do a wonderful job please keep them coming ❤
Sir, Can You Do Some Video On Indian Philosophy. Indian Philosophy Is Also Old As Greek Philosophy. Special Request Of Video On Advaita Vedanta And Other Vedanta System Like Qualified Monism Vedanta, And Dualist Vedanta. Because Vedanta Is Based On Interpretation Of Upnishad ( Part Of Vedas) , Anyone Can Assume That Is Religious Stuff But This Isn't Case Because Philosophy Is Very Much Related To Hinduism.
Nice! Loved the paradoxes!
Sorry, me again with a question that has nothing to do with this post. I recently ordered and got your first 3 volumes of The Philosophy Vibe Anthology and can I just say...wow. Brilliant books that have helped me understand certain thoughts of philosophy, it has made me finally sign up to study Philosophy with the Open University. With these books and your channel, I am sure it will be a great help.
My question though is will you be releasing any more of these anthologies? Thanks again guys for a brilliant channel. I am also ordering your first foray into fiction. All the best
Salutt,Philosophy. cool traveling- talk to you soon, 🎥
I don't see why there would be an identity problem. We are constantly changing, even if it's on the molecular or quantum level. Therefore traveling 1 millionth of a second to the past and seeing yourself would not cause any identity problem. Both entities would have practically the same memories, but there is more to existence than what we remember.
love it! do you think alan wake 2' "spiral" concept makes sense?
Its almost like movies focus on enjoyment and not pedantic scientfic accuracy
Space is Real, but
Time is a concept of Measurement of space, of biology etc.
also time is real
@@shrekkinosciocchino1520yes, as a concept
@@SMASH_REVIEWS concepts are real as well.
@@elgatofelix8917What i meant was , Space is Physical Reality , but Time is a mental concept , quite useful for many many measurements, but is not physically real.
@@SMASH_REVIEWS I'm not so sure that's true, as time has observable physical effects, such as aging.
I disagree with you about the time travel in the butterfly effect. If you go back and change your past, I don’t think that there’s anything that would erase that previous timeline from your memory. I guess this is all theory though.
Wouldn't the mental time travel also suffer from the grandfather effect? If I send my mind back in time to stop me from buying an ugly shirt, not owning the shirt means there is no longer a reason for me to ever go back in time, so if I never go back in time to stop myself from buying the shirt means I do buy the shirt.
Your problem with the Terminator is one of assumptions. As Doc Brown says: you're not thinking fourth dimensionally. If you let go of the directionality of time and of the assumption that the future does not exist until the past and present lead into it, then all the answers are simple. Where did John's father come from before Kyle Reese came back? Why is there a "before"? In 1984, Kyle travelled back from the future. He was always there. You can plot the timeline produced by the movie on a chart (it would be better if it was a fourth dimensional plot, but I understand if you won't be able to make one), mapping out everything from the past through the 21st century, such that it's all there at once along that timeline. And then when you move your finger along the chart to 1984 and ask where Kyle came from; just look over to the 21st century and understand that that's where Kyle is up until the moment he travelled back, and that's where he came from.
You say that that's fatalistic? That it cancels free will? Maybe. But that sounds more like a value system and a philosophy of life, rather than an existential requirement. Who says that there is free will? Who says that the world is not predetermined? As a philosopher, you should know better than to treat these assumptions as incontrovertible fact.
I think the only way time travel can make sense, is that we can only observe and not physically interact with the past. Maybe one would be like a ghost, in an partially overlapping dimension. You couldn't change anything but it would sure be useful in seeing the truth in historical events, and that WOULD have an effect on the present day.
I really like your channel - have subscribed. I love the simple analysis. For the last part of the ideal time travel story, upon return you say that the past events would have merged back with present time hence one wouldn't even have known they have time travelled, other than a recollection of a blank out.
Every day we blackout into Deep Sleep. Could it be we might be time travelling?
Or... hear me out. Anyone can be John Connor with the right nurture so long as they can survive.
Great video
Thank you.
#Side_Note: Earth travels through the universe at 1.3 to 1.6 MILLION miles per hour... Shouldn't this mean we are time traveling in a way via time dialation? Maybe this is why we never see or have met aliens? We are not missing them because of location of them but rather we are in a different time? This could be wild. Another thought. What does this idea say about us seeing the universe as "empty space"? LOL Is it empty? Or... is it empty sometimes? LOL I think I am seeing something. 😋
I think it’s annoying how people have made it a hobby to nitpick shit in time travel movies, it used to be done for fun like oh look at this little inconsistency but now people genuinely use that as criticism of the movie which is a shame, imo time travel movies you go with the flow of the experience through the characters, if the characters work and they story works who cares about little plot holes here and there, feels like the back to the future movies would’ve been hated if they came out today, modern audiences sucks, I call it the cinemaSins syndrome
He mentions in this video that he still enjoys these movies so this video isn't really a criticism of the movies as entertainment, but more just a philosophical exploration of the concept of time travel itself. Anyway, I think the hypothetical concept of a multiverse can explain away some of these time travel conundrums well enough.
the only way time travel make sense are with closed loop stories in a block theory of time universe. An event in 2024 casually explaining an event in say 1987 is plausible in at least there are no logical contradictions contained within