The Lost PowerPoint Slides (Henri Bergson Edition)

Time and Free Will (circa 1889)
–>slide 99

• human experience is a continuous flow
• not events in succession, as physics would have it
• time is experienced as duration
• so it can seem longer than it is
• like this lecture.

Laughter (circa 1901) –>slide 3

• laughter is a corrective process that makes society possible
• we laugh at people who do not adapt to needs of society
• the comic always has something mechanical in something living
• similar to this essay.

An Introduction to Metaphysics (circa 1903) –>slide 9

• intuition not analysis reveals the real world
• intuition transports you to the interior of an object and allows you to know what is inexpressible about it
• such as, what is happening within the confines of my silly hat.

Alltop and humor-blogs.com both have an intuition that laughter is an infectious process. I was reminded of Henri Bergson while watching a documentary about Monty Python last week. Originally published in 2006.