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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Deterministic System of Time Machines
I am a eternalist who is going to be open to the closest we can come to genuinely probabilistic indeterministic events, which is just that something is going to happen. It's purely epistemological. And so what you're saying is that because I have a time machine now, I do know what's going to happen - and does that imply something? So it seems like that implies something that might have been surprising, but maybe you'll be surprised by this. Whether or not the sort of experimental setup was indeterministic turns out to now be a global feature of the entire system.
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