2007-03-14 02:03:06 · 4 answers · asked by splinter 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
if it were possible we would know because we'd have met someone from the future on Oprah, UNLESS there were some sort of restrictions.....
and I don't buy the time travel paradox stuff. I think all possibilities exist somewhere so if a hundred people went back to the same exact time and place they wouldn't end up together because the possibility chain each followed would be slightly altered by the previous passenger. duh.
2007-03-14 02:37:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If time travel is truly possible, then our ordinary conception of time is so flawed that we can hardly say what "free will" even means any more. My best guess is that "eternity" is packed into each moment of Being, so it is sort of like (but not really like) all moments of time exist all at once. In this case free will means that we are creating our own "eternal fate" within each moment. There is no actual "destiny" that we are fated to fulfill because there is no such thing as a future, and there is no determinate series of causes going back into our past, because there is no "past" in our ordinary sense. On this view, our "past" and "future" are being created in this very moment of time, and we are free to create this moment, so in effect we have free will. It is difficult to conceive of this in rational terms, but I suspect that there is some truth in it nonetheless.
By the way, if something like the "many worlds" view of quantum mechanics is right, then we might imagine some variation of time travel in which we travel to parallel to parallel universes and see "the" past or future, but here there is an epistemological problem of know whether this particular universe accurately reflects would our own universe looked like, or will look like. I could, for example, be looking at a universe that is identical to ours up to a certain point, then diverges. So, for example, I go a week into the future of this parallel universe and then come back and bet on the stock market based on what I was in "the future" only to sadly discover that the future in that universe diverged from ours, so my investment all go bust. Anyway, my point is that this variation on the time travel idea would not have to mess with out ordinary conceptions of time and free will, whereas the conception I suggested earlier means that our ordinary concepts are way off the mark.
2007-03-14 09:24:21 · answer #2 · answered by eroticohio 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
free will does not exist the act of free will would cause a paradox in time travel if someone from the future were to go back in time you would notice right away things would be indisorder and time would not exist because the very drive for time travel goes forward through time, and all the technology in all time is now pushing toward it, if time travel were going to exist it would in fact already exist because in the future time travellers would come back in time to prove it changing the course of time and thus altering the past which alters the future in an eternal loop of time which causes a paradox which basically ends any future that will exist after point b via the future in which we created time travel so in conclusion time travel does not exist or might i say is forbidden and also the application of free will with it........srry if you have been confused and your welcome if you have been enlightened, also freewill is just a feeling created by us humans because our conscious mind does not know what is to come it is just another desire but in all reality it does not exist for our subconscience with our souls is already imprinted with what is to come because what will happen will happen and what has happened has happened.
2007-03-14 09:24:55 · answer #3 · answered by danny d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to go or not to go...that is the Q.
2007-03-14 09:25:39 · answer #4 · answered by Veevee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋