The work affirms the reality of spirit and. 1.3 Bergson’s ‘pure memory’ to ‘perception’ scale from Matter and Memory 52 1.4 & 1.5 Bergson’s Memory Cones from Matter and Memory 58 1.6 Krapp’s Memory Cone 62 1.7 the Event-Myth Tree 80 1.8 the Monad and Dyad 93 1.9 Joyce’s Dyad 94 1.

The human soul may be enriched by this experience and the human heart may be touched by the beauty of life, etc., but all these processes presuppose something more primary: the immediacy of experience as such. Matter and Memory is a translation from French of Henri Bergsons Matiere et Memoire first published in 1896. Subsequently, the way in which this process is perceived may be studied by studying how the brain registers the shape, scent, colour, etc. The human mind may capture the intricate mechanism of how a seed grows. That which is given in an immediate sense is more basic than either the world of phenomena6 (that which appears to us) or the world of the noumena (that which exists in itself, outside of our experience), but it is even more basic than the subject of knowledge itself (the us to which everything appears). A key aspect of Bergson’s philosophy is what he refers to as immediate data of consciousness. After all, what appears within the scope of our experience is something different that our possibility for experience itself – at least, in most commonly established ontological positions. The conventions within which subject and object are defined come under pressure as soon as the focus of attention shifts towards the study of human consciousness itself. This convention becomes problematic, however, when the object of scientific study is the human subject. J.An important epistemological convention for scientific research is to make a strict separation between subject and object, between the scientist and that which this scientist observes and experiments upon. This site has books of mine, journal articles and conference talks on Bergson, his holographic model of the brain and mind, his solution to the 'hard problem' of consciousness (which in truth is the problem of the origin of the image of the external world), his model of time and the problems of the relativistic interpretation of time, his close relation to the great theorist of perception, J. Hence out of Bergson’s attempt to solve the duality of mind-body with the intermediary states of perception and memory, grows Deleuze’s theory of the cinema image. In Matter and Memory, he viewed the brain as creating a modulated reconstructive wave passing through the external holographic field, specifying, or specific to, a subset of that field as an image - my coffee cup, the kitchen table, the stirring spoon. In 1896, in Matter and Memory, Henri Bergson anticipated the essence of Gabor's 1947 discovery of holography by fifty years, and Bohm's (1980) later generalization to the universe itself as being a holographic field.

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