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Topic	Does time travel forbid free will?
wolfy42 11/08/18 4:51:13 AM #23:	In theory, right now, a satalite above the earth could be taking pictures of almost anywhere on this planet, and things that people would expect were unknowable, that nobody could discover, could be easily discovered. Who is to say there is no way to create a device that could read thoughts, or even past thoughts, perhaps there is a record, sort of like rings on a tree, that could be read with the correct technology. How we perceive the universe does not have to be the only way to do so. What we believe, and what we think the limits and rules are, is just one viewpoint and very likely not even close to the only way to obtain knowledge and information. There is no way to say for sure that any knowledge is every truely lost, or that you can not discover something (anything) with the correct tools or perception. I am not saying it's possible, just that we can not prove that it isn't possible. With enough information from enough sources you could work backwords to discover how things evolved to it's current point. More importantly, in theory at least, if you could find a set spot in the "past" you could then work forward from there, and discover how everything progressed up till your current now. This would give you full knowledge of both the future and the past. Also, if you think about the whole computer setup, it would just really take 1 human to program a computer with set rules. Something like: Keep expanding yourself and looking for new ways to observe the universe. Find a way to alter the universe, and take a snap shot of previous versions (time periods). Alter the universe to be exactly like it was 20 years ago, but with me in this spot with all my current memories. Set the computer free (shoot it off to a moon etc where it would have plenty of resources) and it doesn't matter how long it took to actually accomplish it's goals, if it did...eventually you would exist in the universe (as it was 20 years ago), floating in space and dying because you didn't specify that the "spot" was a specific location on the planet, so instead you ended up in that location in space.....and died. --- "did you steal my f*in signature" Helly <cite>wolfy42 posted [p:912033195] in Does time ... [t:77177407]...</cite> <quote>In theory, right now, a satalite above the earth could be taking pictures of almost anywhere on this planet, and things that people would expect were unknowable, that nobody could discover, could be easily discovered. Who is to say there is no way to create a device that could read thoughts, or even past thoughts, perhaps there is a record, sort of like rings on a tree, that could be read with the correct technology. How we perceive the universe does not have to be the only way to do so. What we believe, and what we think the limits and rules are, is just one viewpoint and very likely not even close to the only way to obtain knowledge and information. There is no way to say for sure that any knowledge is every truely lost, or that you can not discover something (anything) with the correct tools or perception. I am not saying it's possible, just that we can not prove that it isn't possible. With enough information from enough sources you could work backwords to discover how things evolved to it's current point. More importantly, in theory at least, if you could find a set spot in the "past" you could then work forward from there, and discover how everything progressed up till your current now. This would give you full knowledge of both the future and the past. Also, if you think about the whole computer setup, it would just really take 1 human to program a computer with set rules. Something like: Keep expanding yourself and looking for new ways to observe the universe. Find a way to alter the universe, and take a snap shot of previous versions (time periods). Alter the universe to be exactly like it was 20 years ago, but with me in this spot with all my current memories. Set the computer free (shoot it off to a moon etc where it would have plenty of resources) and it doesn't matter how long it took to actually accomplish it's goals, if it did...eventually you would exist in the universe (as it was 20 years ago), floating in space and dying because you didn't specify that the "spot" was a specific location on the planet, so instead you ended up in that location in space.....and died. --- "did you steal my f*in signature" Helly</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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