Re: Star Trek Causality Paradox

Doug Renner ( dougr@adeptit.com )
Fri, 29 May 1998 08:51:20 -0500

Bill Perry wrote:

> completely? I don't see how that would work, considering the fact that
> once you erase the enemy from time, they would have no reason to erase
> them, if they don't exist, so what have the pilots of the time spaceship
> done with their "time"?

Yes, the "Time Loop Paradox" is one of the principle arguments against
reverse "time travel" ever being a possibility. (Like, what happens if you
kill your parents before your birth date?) It makes for excellent fiction
however.

My question:
"When has anyone ever observed that there has ever been any more than
exactly ONE time?"

My own perception of time is very different. I submit that there is only
one time, and that time is now.
Sure, we have a memory of a former state of this "now" moment, but this
"memory" is hardly more than a chemical arrangement in our brains in the
present time. The notion of a "past" somehow still existing as it was is
just an illusion, albeit a materially useful one. In reality, our
remembered "past" and latent "future" exist only in the present.

(I remember that I have actually been in a state of mind where I have
"observed" this to be true.)

-Doug Renner

PS. This is consistent with Plato's "forms", and is particularly compatible
with all major religions. It is mindblowingly simple, in a literal sense.