Time Travel discussion

The complete lecture I gave via Zoom (with captions) to Michael Waltermathe and Christian Weidermann's Science Fiction and Philosophy class at Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany 16 December 2021. https://youtu.be/KhEI51177Ms

Dear Paul
I very much enjoyed your lecture. Apart from the great anecdotes, your thoughts about the many worlds approach to resolving paradoxes in time travel are interesting, as are your thoughts on free will in time travel. Personally, I think a deterministic universe (where the past, present and future cannot be changed) provides a challenging but very interesting context for time travel stories. I have read about the compatibilist and incompatibilist theories (that free will is either possible or impossible in a deterministic universe) - I personally think we would not have free will in a deterministic universe. Which also makes for great plot devices, of course :-)

Thanks again for sharing the lecture.

Best regards

Chris

So glad you enjoyed the lecture, Chris! I agree with you about a deterministic universe. You'll find a whole collection of my videos, a good many of them about time travel or alternate realities (sometime both) over here https://www.goodreads.com/videos/list...

Great, thank you. I've started checking them out. I had no idea you are a singer, songwriter and producer also :-)

Yeah, I try to do as much damage as possible :) I'm also a Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, and I've written more scholarly books and articles than science fiction (though the fiction was certainly more fun to write).