Stephen E. Robbins' interpretation of Bergson uses the concept of the holograph to delineate how the brain modulates the vastness of Memory. Bergson himself writes of the brain as being like a valve. Everything that you have ever experienced is out there laid down in temporal order compressed into the single plane of duration. Nothing is missing but not everything is to the point so the brain as an organ of action extracts that which is germane. The vastness of the totality of experience could not be stored in the brain. Events are stored in their fullness in memory and it is only on analysis that we can separate out all the physics. An example that Robbins gives is the stirring of a cup of coffee as an experimental event that is such that if something untoward or unexpected were to happen we would immediately spot it. So we therefore have it all in memory otherwise it would pass unnoticed. Robbins throws all his esoteric, to me, knowledge of physics at this event. Adiabatics, vectors, rate of turn etc, etc. But apply to the man himself:
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