Time Travel Paradoxes
The Experience of Time
Movie: o Shane Carruth, Primer
Reading : o David Lewis, “The Paradoxes of Time Travel”
o Jean-Paul Sartre, “Temporality,” from Being And Nothingness
The question for the paper : ο§ What problems with time travel does Primer expose?
EACH RESPONSE NEEDS TO:
1) have a title
2) answer the question.
3) bold main claim (otherwise known as a thesis)
4) have a beginning (introduces the text you are writing about and the topic), a middle (the
bulk of the paper where you make an argument), and an end (where you tell me what you
wrote about).
5) analyze at least one quotation from the text.
6) cite quotations properly (Plato, Republic, 430a2).
7) be broken into multiple paragraphs that communicate a thought and build on each other to
argue for your claim. This should look like a mini-paper.
8) be no longer than 400 words.
9) reference readings and the film.
10) DO NOT REPEAT THE PLOT IN THE FILM.
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Time Travel Paradoxes
Science fiction films show how time travel is characterized by countless quirks. The film Primer. Directed by Shane Carruth, 27 May 2005, highlights several discrepancies associated with time travel (Primer). Carruth is able to portray the essence of being and the controversy of nothingness. An article "The Paradoxes of Time Travel" David Lewis April 1976, examines some of the main misconceptions associated with science fiction and time travel paradoxes CITATION Dav76 \l 1033 (Lewis). The topic is diverse and challenging to grasp, considering that the science used in fiction movies is yet to be discovered in reality. How comes there is a difference in time between the time a traveler departs and arrives? How does time travel correlate with the passivity of memory? Why is this time, unequal? Time travel includes controversial problems involving time inequality, memory passivity, and temporality and its peculiarities are lesser impossibilities based on the divergences between time and time.
Primer's main idea involves slow time traveling, and a controversial problem associated with time travel can be mapped from the time spent in th...
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