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Distinct Scientific vs. Psychological Time
- Bergson argued that scientific clock time differs fundamentally from psychological time, which is enriched by past memories and stretches as duration.
- He challenged the idea that human thoughts and emotions can be fully predicted like mechanical movements in natural sciences.
Measuring Time Through Space
- Bergson says measuring time uses spatial units derived from the Earth's movement around the sun, so clock time treats time as spatial.
- This means physicists miss the experience of flowing duration, which can't be captured by fixed units that presuppose time already elapsed.
Duration as Lived Temporal Flow
- Bergson defines duration as a qualitative flow where past and present coexist and interpenetrate.
- Time is not a sequence of discrete moments but an organic whole where the past progressively colors the present.