Andrew said....
Philosophically, these sorts of arguments would lead to the conclusion why God universe He created does not have time travel as an option. On the other hand, this could also be the reason that physics abhors time travel because of the consequences of such time paradoxes. If human evolution had time travel in the past, then we would be a different kind humans than we are now....
I would submit that for all practical purposes we are indeed a species that has managed time travel...and I dont mean in a physical sense but in a mental sense...
We study history and have reasonable ideas about it and can form some view of the past... we can imagine the future and it is the humans who imagine the future who make it.... through a combination of many things but tracable to our imaginations and ability to plan and organise...
But what I suggest is not a fanciful notion.
I never feel stuck in this time.
My consciousness has been exposed to not only the history of the Earth but perhaps of the Universe itself... and I have a fair idea of what the future can hold for humans both on a negative or positve approach.
But when in the present we can not see this is avaialable to us because we assume we have no control on the past...and lament it.. but we hold the inteligence to realise no matter how obscure actions cause events ..that both good and bad come from them.. and as a species we learn from the events and resultant actions... and then admit if we could travel back in time there is nothing we would dare change...so we travel but can not exercise that control we say we would not even if we had it
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AND most all actions product a responce that adds to our history and understanding what we know so that we can change things for the better in the future, if we hold the resolve... the fact we often do not bother to change things is a lack of belief that we can or knowing that we can find we really do not want to bother...we would not change things in the past that we regret but we can select the future....and that is so neat.
So we are Lords of time in a very real sense in my view.
alex
