Episode two: The Philosophy of Time Travel

Ellie Palmer returns to the podcast, this time, to chat to Alasdair Richmond about the philosophy of time travel.

Physics has told us all sorts of counter-intuitive things about time. Time passes at different rates for different observers, time can even pass in different directions for different observers. If you take that seriously, the potential knock-on of our ability to understand our power of free action; our ability to understand our identity; our understanding of laws of nature; even our understanding of computation is going to need a bit of overhaul and that is something to which I would like to contribute.

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