Status Updates From Creative Evolution

But, as our attention has distinguished and separated them [“mental states”] artificially, it is obliged next to reunite them by an artificial bond. It imagines, therefore, a formless ego, indifferent and unchangeable, on which it threads the psychic states which it has set up as independent entities. Instead of a flux of fleeting shades merging into each other, it perceives distinct and, so to speak,…

I should have started this after Matter and Memory; I was just totally put off by the idea of a “life force.” But then again I totally disagreed with Bergson’s argument in Matter and Memory that memories are purely “spiritual,” without a physical substratum, and that didn’t hamper my enjoyment of the book, so hopefully I’ll be able to put aside my prejudices against this one.

Put on pause for now as my Kindle not only lost my place but also forgot/lost the copious highlighting I had been doing. Argghh!