If we could, in fact, travel backwards (or forwards) into time and change past events...wouldn't that negate free will?
2006-07-21 08:02:52 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I don't see how. if you went back and did things differently, it would still be what you wanted to do. it would nullify a few whopper mistakes for me though.
2006-07-21 11:06:25 · answer #1 · answered by music 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if it will nullify free will. It has been theorized that when you travel back in time you create a separate timeline which branches off the main time line from whence you came. When you create this alternate timeline it is a "new" timeline where your actions whatever they may be is "original" and has never been done before so in essence you are creating original circumstances and if you create something new as opposed to changing something then how can you nullify free will? In any case when you travel back in time remember this: Safety Is NOT Guaranteed (especially if you Push It to The Limit).
http://timetraveler.ytmnd.com/
2006-07-21 15:11:30 · answer #2 · answered by mangobuyer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,
Free will does not mean anything is possible to you.
If it were possible to travel in time, your actions were locked in as done, but you'd be making your decisions based on free will as you made them.
There is nothing you could change in the recorded past. The only thing to happen is that either you will not succeed in your actions, (get hit by a truck) or cause the thing you'd want to stop.
Just try and assassinate Bush now (or any other person), it might not work. but you would be exercising free will.
2006-07-21 15:22:19 · answer #3 · answered by Don't look too close! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I would imagine you'd have the free will to decide to time travel or not if you had a time machine. That alone should answer your question. But if you went back or forward you would certainly effect certain aspects of others free will without them even knowing it.
2006-07-21 15:12:02 · answer #4 · answered by lincoln_browne 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, in a way...
Bu think about it. Travelling into the Past is impossible, the future would be different to the one we left..so your not going back in time, your kinda..travelling to a parallel dimension.
2006-07-21 15:07:38 · answer #5 · answered by thomas p 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey, wouldn't travelling backwards or forwards and changing the events done out of your free will???????
2006-07-21 15:10:33 · answer #6 · answered by whatsinaname 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe it would nullify it because it is of itself but it certainly would complicate it, i.e., freeWill^infinity ( freewill to the power of infinity ) or freeWill(freeWill) recursive free will, or parallel series of free will as in Summation of the effects of or higher.
2006-07-21 15:10:20 · answer #7 · answered by rodneycrater 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not if time travel meant travel to parallel dimensions.
2006-07-21 15:06:20 · answer #8 · answered by The Man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope
2006-07-21 15:05:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋