Joe's Journey And The Death Paradox

When Joe was growing up, he used to be called Joey. At age 20 (in year 2020), his dad died and left him with a large sum of money. However, soon after, a strange thing happened. A man who looks exactly like Joey appeared, claiming that he is the rightful Joe, and that this inheritance was wrongfully stolen from him. An enoumous legal battle begins, and what baffled the court the most was that the DNA of both individuals were identical. Five years later, the courts still could not make a decision, and Joey lost a lot of time and money fighting the legal battle with this man who looks like him. Outraged by this chaos, Joey kills this man and was sent to jail. He became a mad scientist (the other prisoners called him Mad Joe) and begins to build
With regards to Lewis’s model of time traveling, the moments after which Joey kills Joe, they are both dead and alive in the year 2025. Lewis justifies that events in personal time for a time traveler “depends on their locations in one-dimensional external time” (Lewis 147). He elaborates that it is possible for events to acquire multiple personal time locations, such as talking to oneself. This, I see, is fine. The issue occurs when for a single event, Joe’s identity is something that is both completely different from the other – dead and alive. Thus, raising the issue that if Joe’s death depends on its location in external time, how can he be dead when he is also alive and facing murder
I will first explain this theory before elaborating how it will address the previous issues of Joes and the memory criterion, the death paradox, and the question of who is the true beneficiary of the inherence, and then I will defend time travel as a multiverse from concerns which Lewis has raised. As we follow the story of Joe as stated above, we have focused in on his personal time, which Figure 5 has labeled Personal Time 1 in blue (I will call him Joe 1 for the purpose of focusing the story on one specific Joe, but this does not mean Joe 1 was the first and original Joe). The purple line illustrates the presence of the man who claims to be Joe in the legal battle, which ends in the year 2025 when our focused individual in blue has killed him. Afterwards, the blue line individual created a time machine and “went back in time” to 2020, infringing on another Joe’s timeline. In this instance, the Joes have different personal identities as they come from different timelines and