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One thought I've had is that all time travel contradictions are based on conscious agents. Without a conscious agent who aims to change things, what happened is
by joe_the_user 5y ago
One thought I've had is that all time travel contradictions are based on conscious agents. Without a conscious agent who aims to change things, what happened is happened.
- karpierz 5y agoThat's not true, here's an example where it's billiard balls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_princ...
- PeterisP 5y agoConsciousness is about self-awareness and it does not strictly require nondeterminism or true free will; it is possible to have a universe with conscious agents who aim to change things and experience these changes, however their aims, choices, attempts at change and any success is fully deterministic, what happened is happened.