This suggests concepts like fate and the universe having a will and intent. It seems absurd. Wouldn’t a branching creating a new universe with its own timeline make more sense? Each unit of influence you exert as a time traveler branches a new universe in which you continue to exist and which has a completely new and separate timeline without paradoxes.
Neither possibility really makes more "sense" than the other. And it's effectively impossible to prove experimentally -- in a "many branching worlds" universe, you could never conclusively prove or disprove its existence, even if you experimentally demonstrated this kind of "self correcting" time travel, as you may have simply created a branching universe where it appears to you that you did so.
It's metaphysical philosophizing as far as I'm concerned -- interesting, but not terribly applicable, and heavily influenced by one's own beliefs and preexisting notions about the world.
