Episode 5: The Avengers, Time Travel, and The Deutsch Proposition
The Theory of Anything
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The Paradox of Simulation of Time Travel
In a virtual reality simulation there would be no need for you to not talk to your past self right because I'm not impacted it's not real so I wouldn't be impacting anything by by interacting with people. which is why in Star Trek they always try and avoid interacting with people when they're in the past yes. In Avengers they laid out the rules of time travel in exactly that way like we were talking to our past selves or betting on sports events things like that. If you want it to be an actual simulation of the past you have to be able to interact with it which by definition means it's different than it actually wasOkay does that make sense yeah it makes perfect sense all right
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