Comments on The Odds Are One: Causal Loop

The Terminator turns out to be a really awe...

2009-12-17T20:31:18.617-08:00

The Terminator turns out to be a really awesome example of this whole theory of time travel and causation (I believe they mention it in one of the articles to which I've linked). The evil computer from the future attempts to prevent the birth of the great leader of men John Connor, so he sends a killer robot back in time. But as a result of this, John Connor sends his trusted friend back to protect his mother, and that person ends up falling in love with his mother and fathering John Connor. To quote Lost, what happened, happened. To quote Mrs. Transient Gadfly, the interesting thing about narrative isn't knowing what happened, but how it happened.

The terminator would have been a really dull movie...

2009-12-14T15:24:10.209-08:00

The terminator would have been a really dull movie if I had known this theory. Did u hear the episode of this American life about the physicist who spent his career studying time travel after his father dies of a heart attack? It's great.

I'm guessing that's because you're lin...

2009-12-11T15:51:03.117-08:00

I'm guessing that's because you're linking to "theoddsareone.blogspot.com", which in turn redirects to www.theoddsareone.com. So pressing the browser back button just takes you back to a page that redirects you forward again.

My CAPTCHA word for this comment is "manheat". Because of course it is.

What have you done to your blog? Apparently, in y...

2009-12-09T10:02:16.984-08:00

What have you done to your blog? Apparently, in your resurgence into the blogworld, you have somehow fiendishly made it so one's back button in one's browser (Safari, by the way) will no longer let one go back to anything but your blog. Very Machiavellian of you, turning yourself into the ur blog and all, and perhaps particularly apt given this post's subject matter, but overall, when people's blogs do this to me, I often cease to return because it's just so annoying. I'm just sayin. Oh, and welcome back!

Hmm...tell me more. The internets are unusually si...

2009-12-01T14:33:03.689-08:00

Hmm...tell me more. The internets are unusually silent on the term.

Two words: emergent causation.

2009-12-01T06:30:30.129-08:00

Two words: emergent causation.