PHILOS 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Causal Loop, Virtual Reality, Philosophical Logic
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Lecture 6: time travel paradoxes by prof. sven bernecker. An american philosopher who taught at princeton. Made important contributions in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical logic. Crossing the dateline does not intuitively qualify as time. Coma travel: one is in a coma for a number of years and then awakes, at which point it seems from one"s own point of view that hardly any time has passed. Suppose coma were like a deep sleep for many, many years you have simply not been aware for a while. You have not traveled in time different from anyone else around you: one is cryogenically frozen for hundreds of years. Upon being woken, it seems from one"s ow point of view that hardly any time has passed. Freezing a body hoping that future medical advances can revive the body at some later stage intuitively not time travel. Doctor: doctor who steps into a machine in 2015.
