Is Time Travel the Key to Understanding Determinism and the Future?

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Traveling to the future suggests that all outcomes of actions and reactions are predetermined, as the future is viewed as a result of past events. This perspective posits that time travel to the future would involve moving outside the conventional time-space continuum, where the traveler does not alter future events simply by arriving there. If time travel were to influence the future, it would resemble the natural progression of life, where individuals continuously move forward in time without altering predetermined outcomes. The discussion raises questions about the relationship between time travel and determinism, with some arguing that time travel does not necessarily imply a deterministic universe.
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If you could travel to the future wouldn't that mean that the outcome of every action and the resulting reaction were already determined? I know that we are constantly moving to the future, but I am talking about a situation similar to back to the future except he doesn't go back in time again.
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Yes it would definitely mean that.
The future is an accumulation of the past, and time travel to the future implies that the traveler travels outside of time space, where he is not influencing the future just by merely traveling there.

Otherwise it would mean that he is not traveling into the future, but rather traveling elsewhere, where he has influenced time in such a way that the travel accumulated into the future, which is no different from just normally living your life into the future like everyone is doing.
 
I don't see why time travel would imply determinism.
 
russ_watters said:
I don't see why time travel would imply determinism.

OK.. Maybe you can expand on that?
 

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