J.W. DunneIn my own case, I employed this experiment mainly in order to seek for the barrier, if any, which divides our knowledge of the past from our knowledge of the future. And the odd thing was that there did not seem to be any such barrier at all.
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George Edward Herbert, known to history as Lord Bertrand Russell, was one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. He believed that human beings should not duplicate or repeat ideas because doing so would ruin our experience of the world. Instead, he believed that we should only work with the knowledge we have at hand.
Source: An Experiment With Time
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