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Dunne, John William

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British aeronautical engineer and philosopher, 1875-1949, author of An Experiment with Time and Nothing Dies

Fishburn and Hughes: "An Irish popular philosopher, known for his theories of 'serial time', 'time regression' and precognition which influenced J.B. Priestley. Dunne claimed that the arguments of his best- known book, An Experiment with Time, were 'considerably easier to understand than are the rules of contract bridge' and of 'considerably more importance to mankind'. In the course of his own reasoning he arrived, much to his own surprise, at a formulation of the first scientific argument for human immortality. Borges has speculated at length on this book, with particular reference to chapters 21 and 22 in which 'a clear view of the nature of time regress' is illustrated by examples and by a series of diagrams. Though fascinated by Dunne's concept of 'hypothetic times' and by his postulation of a future which already exists, Borges cannot but be amused by the 'inextricable' quality of his diagrams and politely hints at the fallacies of his argument (.TL 19-20)." (62)