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  • Philosophy and time travel
    Mickūnas, Algis

    Creativity studies, 20/7/3/, Letnik: 8, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    The author investigates the topic of philosophy of time travel by explicating how awareness of time helps to understand such time travel, the ways we encounter others, speak with them about the world and events in our world and history. The author discusses aspects of pretemporal life of awareness and discloses philosophical time travel in order to engage in a dialogue with others. The argument of this paper makes the following points: a) empirically it is not possible to leave our chronological position; b) human memory is quite limited; c) yet we dialogue with members of our species through times in terms of our "signitive" capacity; d) we read texts that "mean" events, things and others and thus engage in a dialogue with them. All this implies that we are aware of what other said or saw and made accessible "through" the empirical signs prior to asking a question of "when" - this means "atemporally".