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Henri Bergson — Why we live in the past - Ralph Ammer
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A quick introduction to Bergson's ideas on time, memory and consciousness
Henri Bergson — Why we live in the past Should we just live in the moment ? In “Matter and Memory” the French philosopher Henri Bergson claims that this is not even possible. 1. Perception is physical First of all: How do we perceive the “current moment” anyway? Bergson suggests that the whole point of perception is action . For example, when some single-cell organism touches an obstacle, it moves away. That is the whole point of perception: to move in the right direction, to find food, to not be food—to survive. Perception serves future action, not insight. Accordingly
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