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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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What if I Had a Time Machine?

There's a long standing set of questions about if I had a time machine, I could go to the past, could I and separately, should I do things to change how things turn out? And presumably this is right up the metaphysical alley of people who think about these questions. So we think about the sort of single timeline, time travel stories. That kind of model isn't the one that philosophers have spent the most time thinking about.

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