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> ‘What advice would I give my younger self’ also doesn’t compute. Because that would mean that I would end up with entirely different life experience and the p
by c22 6y ago
> ‘What advice would I give my younger self’ also doesn’t compute. Because that would mean that I would end up with entirely different life experience and the person giving the advice would not exist as they would have changed. In sci fi, this would be the classic causal loop/temporal paradox time travel dilemma.
Are you actually worried that speculating about your younger self might accidentally erase you from the sands of time? We don't actually have a way of delivering our advice to our past selves, so the activity seems mostly harmless.
- mrfusion 6y agoWhen asking this question, I assume the many worlds theory and giving advice to my past self would simply break off into a new branch. I’d still exist the same but his life might be different.
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoi am reminded again for the second time this week of Robert Heinlein's By His Bootstraps. This and All you Zombies tackle time travel paradoxes in a satisfactory way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_His_Bootstraps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_His_Bootstraps + PKD's The Skull...: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skull_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skull_(short_story)
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoactually, if time travel exists..you wouldn't be aware of it. especially if one of your descendants visited you.