1. Metaphysical Time in Jorge Luis Borge's "Garden of Forking P
... is infinite in that it simultaneously presents all possible outcomes for the situations and characters contained within. Dr. Albert states: In the work of Ts"ui Pen, all possible outcomes occur; each one is the point of departure for other forkings. Sometimes, the paths of this labyrinth converge: for example, you arrive at this house, but in one of the possible pasts you are my enemy, in another, my friend ... casually stroll across this distance while the observer, unaware of the folding of spacetime, would observe them as flying. We now note both the metaphysical use of time and the ...
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