The Lost PowerPoint Slides (Henri Bergson Edition)
Published November 10, 2009 By
Mark A. Rayner
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.
[…] Now I’m not sure this post really deserves to be here – it seems rather fun history to me, but it was nominated, so check out on Mark A Rayner’s The Skwib, the The Lost PowerPoint Slides (Henri Bergson Edition). And yes for the literal-minded, I have noticed there was no Powerpoint back then – lucky them! […]
Time and Free Will (circa 1889)
Time and Free Will (circa 1889)
[…] Now I’m not sure this post really deserves to be here – it seems rather fun history to me, but it was nominated, so check out on Mark A Rayner’s The Skwib, the The Lost PowerPoint Slides (Henri Bergson Edition). And yes for the literal-minded, I have noticed there was no Powerpoint back then – lucky them! […]