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How do you give birth to yourself?


Great movie. But even after reading many comments here, I have not read a feasible explanation of how Jane gave birth to herself. I get that it is necessary for the Loop in the story, but even if a hermaphrodite could inseminate itself the baby would not be the same person. So there is either an element in the movie that is kept a mystery (maybe Robinson's direct involvement) or this is a major flaw in the film.

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Novikov's self-consistency principle would throw out those timelines where the DNA of Baby Jane doesn't exactly match her parent's DNA, leaving only those timelines where they do in fact all have the same DNA.

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