The unreal future
The unreal future
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不真实的未来
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2008
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J. Burgess
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也许，如果未来确实存在，具体地、个别地存在，就像一个更好的大脑能够辨别的东西一样，那么过去就不会那么诱人了：过去的需求将被未来的需求所平衡。在考虑这个或那个物体时，人们可能会跨过跷跷板的中间部分。可能会很有趣。但是，未来并没有这种现实性（象描绘出来的过去和感知到的现在所具有的现实性）；未来不过是一种比喻，一种思想的幽灵。
Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would he balanced by those of the future. Persons might then straddle the middle stretch of the seesaw when considering this or that object. It might be fun. But the future has no such reality (as the pictured past and the perceived present possess); the future is but a figure of speech, a specter of thought.