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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

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⑥ indirect proof of the unity of the executive functions we associate with the subject, ego or self

⑥ indirect proof of the unity of the executive functions we associate with the subject, ego or self

I'm going to start with a long quote from Bergson but only pick out one or two threads to follow briefly: [from Nancy Margaret Paul and W. Scott Palmer's translation, Zone Books, NY, 1991. Online edition, at p.56, may differ.] This is to say that

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⓪ The proof of the infinity of attributes

⓪ The proof of the infinity of attributes

For Spinoza, God or Nature, Substance, has infinite attributes of which we have access only to two: thought and extension. If perceptions are outside, they are attributes of substance. Bergson solves Spinoza's problem. To put it like this, Bergson solves Spinoza's problem, is completely false: that

Tomorrow Belongs To Me: art after genocide

Tomorrow Belongs To Me: art after genocide

The following article is prompted by Auckland Theatre Company's puff line for its 2026 season of Cabaret: One of the most iconic musicals of all time, Cabaret is bringing its divinely decadent and chillingly relevant dazzling production to Tāmaki Makaurau in 2026. 🎶! Chillingly relevant?! I asked, commenting on

⑤ virtual images

⑤ virtual images

The problem I have been dealing with is that of limiting virtual images to the body. Bergson's motor-diagramme seems to distinguish movements, the movements specifically across the surface of the brain of electrical impulses, to limn out the forms particular to . . . as I am doing now . . . the words

John Collier crosses my path

John Collier crosses my path

* writing on Cabaret, here, I find its antecedent stage-play, written by John Van Druten, award winner, 1952/53, where it adapted and dramatised Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, in turn adapted into a film bearing the same title as the play, I Am a Camera, screenplay by John

④ The Region of Images

Yes, this has the same title as a previous digest post, but there it was ambivalent. For Bergson it means the region of images in the brain, that in his time psychology asserted and in ours that neuroscience asserts, which he denies there being. (We might adapt Bergson's