Meditation on Bergson's Duration

By Bergson the brain is an organ of action. We do not have the time to scry all the inputs only a useful fraction of them. The rest is filled in from memory. He calls these images, photos already taken out there. Yeats in The Circus Animals Desertion called them:

Those masterful images because complete

Grew in pure mind but out of what began?

The brain’s task is to limit the overwhelming information to what we already know. The simplest thing that everybody knows makes getting around easier. It’s a meme world.

To refuse to complete the sentence the world has begun is a task for spiritual philosophy. Duration is a single plane with all our past embedded there and not drawing anything from it for our use is to pause in a condition that is perfectly clear and quite empty. Is this what he calls intuition?