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Man has unlocked the ability to travel through time. From the outset of this new discovery, man's fate was also sealed. Now it is a race against time, against.
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• The World is Not as You Thought it Was
• Works (107)
• Christopher Knight (author)
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If it's the same one you stole before, it's an Object paradox.

The World is Not as You Thought it Was

If it's not, then it's this. The simplest version is the one where the time machine itself is the product of the stable time loop--the character sees a version of himself pop into existence with a time machine, hand it to him, and press the button, only to be whisked into the past where he hands it to his past self and presses the button. Tricked-Out Time is when you "change" the past on purpose to resemble this. For the Recursive Fiction variant of this, see Mutually Fictional.

For further discussion of this trope, see Wikipedia. Since many examples of this trope aren't revealed until late in the story, and the existence of a loop can itself be a Spoiler , consider yourself spoiler-warned. Importantly, this trope is not to be confused with Groundhog Day Loop.

McCoy: You know, if we give him the formula, we'll be altering the future. Scotty: Why? Spock : Admiral, weren't those a gift from Dr. Kirk : And they will be again. That's the beauty of it. Present Rory: Do I have to remember all of that? Future Rory: It just sort of happens. Present Amy, flirtatiously: Hi.

Axiom 1 also results in the persistent charm of the Easy Think Substance. Agrilogistical ontology, formalised by Aristotle, supposes a being to consist of a bland lump of whatever decorated with accidents. Some kind of brown featureless lump emerges, which one subsequently decorates with sprinkles. The lump ontology evoked in Axiom 1 implies Axiom 2 : to exist is to be constantly present, or the metaphysics of presence.

Correctly identified by deconstruction as inimical to thinking future coexistence, the metaphysics of presence is intimately bound up with the history of global warming. Here is the field, I can plough it, sow it with this or that or nothing, farm cattle, yet it remains constantly the same. The entire system is construed as constantly present, rigidly bounded, separated from nonhuman systems. This appearance of hard separation belies the obvious existence of beings who show up ironically to maintain it. Consider the cats and their helpful culling of rodents chewing at the corn.

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Cats are a neighbour species. The penetrating gaze of a cat is used as the gaze of the extra-terrestrial alien because cats are the intra-terrestrial alien. The agrilogistical engineer must strive to ignore the cats as best as he underline he can. Meanwhile he asserts instead that he could plant anything in this agrilogistical field and that underneath it remains the same field.

A field is a substance underlying its accidents: cats happen, rodents happen, even wheat happens; the slate can always be wiped clean. Agrilogistical space is a war against the accidental. Weeds and pests are nasty accidents to minimise or eliminate. Agrilogistical existing means being there in a totally uncomplicated sense. No matter what the appearances might be, essence lives on. Ontologically as much as socially, agrilogistics is immiseration. Appearance is of no consequence. What matters is knowing where your next meal is coming from no matter what the appearances are. Without paying too much attention to the cats, you have broken things down to pure simplicity and are ready for Axiom 3 :.

Axiom 3 generates an Easy Think Ethics to match the Easy Think Substance, a default utilitarianism hardwired into agrilogistical space. Compared with the injunction to flee from death and eventually even from the mention of death, everything else is just accidental. No matter whether I am hungrier or sicker or more oppressed, underlying these phenomena my brethren and I constantly regenerate, which is to say we refuse to allow for death.

Parfit was trying to think about what to do with pollution, radioactive materials and the human species. Imagine trillions of humans, spread throughout the galaxy. This will always be absurdly better than billions of humans living in a state of bliss. Because bliss is an accident, and existing is a substance.

Easy Think Ethics. It only takes a few billion operating under agrilogistical algorithms at Earth magnitude. To avoid the consequences of the last global warming, humans devised a logistics that has resulted in global warming.

Nature is defined within agrilogistics as a harmonious periodic cycling. Conveniently for agrilogistics, Nature arose at the start of the geological period we call the Holocene, a period marked by stable Earth system fluctuations. Like Oedipus meeting his father on the crossroads, the cross between the Holocene and agrilogistics has been fatally unconscious.

Nature is best imagined as the feudal societies imagined it, a pleasingly harmonious periodic cycling embodied in the cycle of the seasons, enabling regular anxiety-free prediction of the future.

The smooth predictability allowed us to sustain the illusion. Think of how when we think of nonhumans we reminisce nostalgically for a less deviant-seeming moment within agrilogistics, such as fantasies of a feudal worldview: cyclic seasons, regular rhythms, tradition. This is just how agrilogistics feels—at first.

Nature as such is a twelve-thousand-year-old human product, geological as well as discursive. The Anthropocene is Nature in its toxic nightmare form. Nature is the latent form of the Anthropocene waiting to emerge as catastrophe. Bruno Latour argues that we have never been modern. But perhaps we have never been Neolithic. And in turn this means that the Palaeolithic, adore it or demonise it, is also a concept that represses the shimmering of the arche-lithic within the very agrilogistical structures that strive to block it completely. We Mesopotamians never left the hunter-gathering mind.

We are going to have to rethink what a thing is.

We require a Difficult Think Thing. That I claim humans exist and made the Anthropocene by drilling into rock does indeed make me an essentialist.

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Which in turn implies that while beings are what they are essentialism they are not constantly present. Demonstrating this would constitute a weird essentialism in the lineage of Luce Irigaray, whose project has been to break the Law of Noncontradiction so as to liberate beings from patriarchy. Compare the ridicule that greets the idea of creating social spaces that are not agrilogistical so not traditionally capitalist, communist or feudal.

Such reactions are themselves agrilogistical. Both assume that to have a politics is to have a one-size-fits-all Easy Think concept.

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Anyone with prosthetic devices such as glasses is suspect. But imagine the Year Zero violence of actually trying to get rid of intellectuality, reflection, desire, whatever we think is a source of evil, so we can feel right and properly ecological. Neanderthals lived in homes. Primates make beds of leaves. Dogs were fused with humans hundreds of thousands of years ago.

The question of origins is complicated by the way in which that question is contaminated in advance by agrilogistics. We need to figure out how we fell for it, in order not to keep retweeting it.