Regarding Time Travel

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I came across something that seemed to puzzle me a bit. Say in the future time travel is possible. What do you think happens to the people in the past. Do you think that though in the modern day they are deceased they can actually feel? Or do you think that going back in time really only the time travelers are the ones that act as conscious beings? For further clarification, the people in the past, do they act like conscious people or are they (since dead) sort of mindless people?

Just some food for thought!

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@tkdboy 14,

If time travel becomes available in the future, it is obviously available now. I haven't seen any problems, and won't.

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@roger,

Roger
Thrôt globally

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@roger,

roger wrote:

I haven't seen any problems, and won't.

What do you mean problems? I don't quite get what you mean?

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@tkdboy 14,

Why, if time travel happens in the future, it also happened now, didn't it? If you don't see problems now, there won't be any. They would have already occured.

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@tkdboy 14,

Hey there tkdboy 14 !

Although I do not subscribe to the notion of backwards time travel as described in your post, your set up is that the time traveler visits the past i.e. the instance when the visited beings were conscious. If the traveler visited a sort of mindless people then, the traveler is not visiting the past, rather a modified version of the past. This by definition would not be time travel.

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@roger,

roger wrote:

If time travel becomes available in the future, it is obviously available now. I haven't seen any problems, and won't.

i feel pretty mindless some days, do you suppose there's a time traveller around at that time

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@validity,

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Hey there tkdboy 14 !

Although I do not subscribe to the notion of backwards time travel as described in your post, your set up is that the time traveler visits the past i.e. the instance when the visited beings were conscious. If the traveler visited a sort of mindless people then, the traveler is not visiting the past, rather a modified version of the past. This by definition would not be time travel.

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