The Lost PowerPoint Slides (Henri Bergson Edition)

Henri Bergson, wearing a silly hatTime 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...
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