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Consistent Time-Travel Movies: A Quasi-Philosophical Love Letter

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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.

Ben Burgis
Apr 30, 2023
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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…

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