![]() ![]() Anything that is irreducible and irreversible in the successive moments of history eludes science. Science can work only on what is supposed to repeat itself – that is to say, on what is withdrawn, by hypothesis, from the action of real time. ![]() This is an insufficient understanding of time to describe anything that really builds on itself / has duration / endures. Because it is simple, its future can be exactly predicted by its present – using a differential equation. It selects some simple system and artificially isolates the system from the rest of the world. Mechanistic science has time as a parameter. Anything which builds on itself has this sense of time – psychology, species, life as a whole, the entire universe. The future is larger than the present and so it cannot, in principle, be predicted – a predicted future is smaller than the present. Even if it’s not explicitly remembered, it builds on our character. ![]() My mental state, as it advances on the road of time, is continually swelling with the duration it accumulates. Prerequisites: None, but a basic understanding of the history of evolution would be useful.īergson starts with a description of what it is like to experience time. The full text of this book can be found here. A radical view of evolution, founded on a very different understanding of time and knowledge. ![]()
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