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https://doi.org/10.15291/SIC/1.9.LC.1
Paradox Lost: Time Travel and Free Will in the Television Show Lost
Kevin Drzakowski
; University of Wisconsin-Stout
Sažetak
The television series Lost uses the motif of time travel to consider the problem of human free will, following the tradition of Humean compatibilism in asserting that human beings possess free will in a deterministic universe. This paper reexamines Lost’s final mystery, the “Flash Sideways” world, presenting a revisionist view of the show’s conclusion that figures the Flash Sideways as an outcome of time travel. By considering the perspectives of observers who exist both within time and outside of it, the paper argues that the characters of Lost changed their destinies, even though the rules of time travel in Lost’s narrative assert that history cannot be changed.
Ključne riječi
Lost; time travel; Hume; free will; compatibilism
Hrčak ID:
215113
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Datum izdavanja:
17.12.2018.
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