![]() By comparison, I've been trying to read Dexter and Philosophy: Mind over Spatter and it's just awful, because all the articles are about the same thing from different angles, which is boring, and X-Men and Philosophy: Astonishing Insight and Uncanny Argument in the Mutant X-Verse had absolutely no real argument for the most part - some of the essays were just explanation of the series' lore. This compilation was probably the best "and philosophy" collection I've read since Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful than You Can Possibly Imagine, and not because the Terminator series is awesome, but because the essays in this collection were varied in focus, well-written, and actually argued something I hadn't considered before. I can't think of solution for this problem off the top of my head, unless a new parallel universe is created every time someone travels in time but that's not really a solution per say and going into that is going to get really complicated and I'm leaving work in ten minutes so I'm going to go back to reading (on page 118 now) and we'll see what the book has to say about it. Post-apocalypse John Connor would blink out of existence the moment the T-101 left. They go on to explain how as soon as the terminator went back in time the future would have altered immediately, realigning itself with the course dictated by Sarah's death, assuming the terminator succeeds. According to Delfino and Sheahan (authors of the chapter "Bad Timing: Metaphysics of The Terminator"), Reese tells John he went back in time after the Terminator had left. The second problem involves the time lag between the T-101's journey to assassinate young Sarah, and Kyle Reese's attempts to save her. Consider that the cycle came into existence step by step. The first time that John Connor sends Kyle Reese back, Reese will have to save Sarah from a terminator in addition to making a baby. If John listens to the tapes Sarah makes for him, he will understand what he has to do to ensure his birth, and he will do it. Skynet decides they don't like this outcome. This meeting leads to John Connor's birth and his existence turns the outcome of the war in humanity's favor. Example: Kyle Reese leaves his post-Judgement Day, John-Connor-less world to travel back in time for whatever reason and meets Sarah, maybe by chance. ![]() If there was a first instance that did not include John Connor, but led to his existence, it would seem logical that in the version of time where John exists, he would take steps to make sure his father and mother always meet. ![]() However, this is only a problem if you believe the cycle always has to happen this way. The first major problem in time travel logic is this: how can John Connor send Kyle Reese back in time to save (and impregnate) his mother, if John Connor's existence depends on this event? John can't be cause and effect. Terminator seems to share view #2, since the premise of the franchise begins with Skynet's attempts to send a terminator back in time to eliminate the mother of their defeater and thus alter the course of events in their favor. Someone who goes back in time can cause rippling consequences, can double back over their own timeline, can change history and the future. Anyone who moves around in it is already following an inevitable path. I can imagine two ways to view the nature of time. I made up an answer to the Kyle Reese/John Connor cycle issues that I'm happy with but I didn't catch the issue with Kyle going back after the terminator to save Sarah until this book pointed it out. I'm at the part where they talk about the metaphysics of terminator and the impossible contradictions caused by Cameron's treatment of time travel. ![]()
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