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Time Travel and Self‐Consistency: Implications for Determinism and the Human Condition
Author(s) -
King David
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
ratio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-9329
pISSN - 0034-0006
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9329.00092
Subject(s) - determinism , consistency (knowledge bases) , epistemology , free will , technological determinism , philosophy , computer science , artificial intelligence
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 best, determinate but uncaused.