Consistent Time-Travel Movies: A Quasi-Philosophical Love Letter
Most time travel movies rest on deeply confused models of past-future-past causation. So let's take a moment to appreciate the gems that don't. You can, I promise, learn to love causal loops.
Note: Stefan Bertram-Lee chatted with me about this essay on This is Revolution podcast. You can watch the conversation there. or cross-streamed to GTAA.
In the essay two Sundays ago, I went through some of the academic literature on time travel paradoxes. If you think philosophy needs to earn its keep by being relevant to the real world, and you’ve neve…