I argue that, contrary to an idea to be found in popularizations of time travel, one cannot more easily multiply oneself by taking younger versions of oneself back in time than by travelling back in time on one’s own. The reason is that the suggested multiplication of the traveller is, from a global perspective, only apparent
Yet Another Confusion about Time-Travel / G. Torrengo. - In: DISPUTATIO. - ISSN 0873-626X. - 35:1(2013), pp. 49-56.
Yet Another Confusion about Time-Travel
G. TorrengoPrimo
2013
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I argue that, contrary to an idea to be found in popularizations of time travel, one cannot more easily multiply oneself by taking younger versions of oneself back in time than by travelling back in time on one’s own. The reason is that the suggested multiplication of the traveller is, from a global perspective, only apparent
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