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Bergson's Interpenetration & Schopenhauer's Decoy Birds
« on: October 28, 2018, 02:53:16 pm »
As  Russell   writes about  Bergson  -the  thing  in itself is  not  divided into separate things, the intellect does creates  our experience of  separate things. Bergson  apprehends a multiplicity, but a multiplicity of interpenetrating processes, not of spatially external bodies. There are in truth no things: “things and states are only views, taken by our mind, of becoming. There are no things, there are only actions” . This view of the world, which appears difficult and unnatural to intellect, is easy and natural to intuition. Memory affords an instance of what is meant, for in memory the past lives on into the present and interpenetrates it. Apart from mind, the world would be perpetually dying and being born again; the past would have no reality, and therefore there would be no past. It is memory, with its correlative desire, that makes the past and the future real and therefore creates true duration and true time. Intuition alone can understand this mingling of past and future: to the intellect they remain external, spatially external as it were, to one another. Under the guidance of intuition, we perceive that “form is only a snapshot view of a transition”  and the philosopher “will see the material world melt back into a single flux”

One  maybe  at ease  at the moment  but  he  carries his  past  torments  with  himself  everywhere.Decoy  birds  ,by  definition,are   dead &  used  to hide the truth.
La Tristesse Durera Toujours                                  (The Sadness Lasts Forever ...)
-van Gogh.

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