David lewis has a point on this alternative view of time. Time travel is geneside. It's more than genesi. You've annihilated the entire universe for a period of forty years, in all the ways it had evolved over that time. If you wanted to travel back into the past or into the future and stay in the same world, you're going to have to live with the fact that everything you plan to do you've already done. And everything already done can't undone. Every fact about the world, even your own time travel in it, has been written into the very world itself. Change anything about the story of the world, and you've entered an alternate
David Lewis was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, who few outside of academia know much about. By the time of his death in 2001, he was the greatest systematic thinker in metaphysics since the Enlightenment. In Part 1 of a four-part series, we follow his journey from sick little boy in Oberlin, Ohio to teenager learning about free will from Iris Murdoch. We accompany the story of his early life with his theory of time, time travel, and the self. Guest voices include R. Jay Wallace, Mark Schroeder, Steffi Lewis, Donald Lewis, Ellen Lewis, Alan Hajek, John Bigelow, and Meghan Sullivan.
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