Eloise, the white rat Daniel used as a demonstration of mind time travel, presents a very clear paradoxical problem. Namely:
Stage 1: Eloise is a rat that does not know her way around a maze.
Stage 2: Eloise gets blasted by purple light that sends her consciousness into the future.
Stage 3: In this future, Eloise is taught how to get through the maze.
Stage 4: Eloise's consciousness returns from the future, now carrying the knowledge of how to run through the maze.
Stage 5: Eloise runs through the maze.
Stage 6: Daniel Faraday announces that Eloise can do this because he plans to teach the rat, in an hour, how to do it.
Stage 7: Theoretically therefore, Daniel Faraday, an hour later, goes to teach Eloise how to run the maze. . . but is unable to teach her! She already knows!
Stage 1: Eloise is a rat that does not know her way around a maze.
Stage 2: Eloise gets blasted by purple light that sends her consciousness into the future.
Stage 3: In this future, Eloise is taught how to get through the maze.
Stage 4: Eloise's consciousness returns from the future, now carrying the knowledge of how to run through the maze.
Stage 5: Eloise runs through the maze.
Stage 6: Daniel Faraday announces that Eloise can do this because he plans to teach the rat, in an hour, how to do it.
Stage 7: Theoretically therefore, Daniel Faraday, an hour later, goes to teach Eloise how to run the maze. . . but is unable to teach her! She already knows!
Stage 8: The problem, then, is that Dan cannot teach the rat how to run the maze, therefore the rat cannot journey to the future where she will learn how to run the maze, therefore she cannot return to the present with the knowledge of how to run the maze, therefore she cannot run the maze. And yet she does.
Stage 9: Findings. Eloise the rat displays a clear example of a time paradox. The result of this paradox, however, does not result in the collapse of the space-time continuum and the universe as we know it. Instead, the rat dies.
Conclusion: time paradox will not end the world, it will just end the time traveller.
