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⑦ How Cinema Has Changed Our Minds

⑦ How Cinema Has Changed Our Minds

or, How Recording Moving Images Has Changed Our Minds Indirectly, I've heard a reader ask, Where's he heading with these philosophers he's talking about? and, because it's gratifying to be read, I am answering the question. The philosophers I have been writing

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

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

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

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

⊕︎The "Region of Images"

⊕︎The "Region of Images"

Bergson describes it as a keyboard which enables thousands of strings to be struck and set vibrating in a single harmony. And this is where the contradiction disappears. (③) The contradiction had been between the location of the injury in the brain which caused aphasia and the various locations, which over

③ when the images brought to mind by memory are so real as to displace the reality this tells us images are not stored or processed in the brain

③ when the images brought to mind by memory are so real as to displace the reality this tells us images are not stored or processed in the brain

because in the last entry what I was trying to say was lost in its elaboration, I will try to keep this brief. 2 statements, 1 which requires explanation, 2 which reflects on the other: they are both Bergson's. (As before I will cite them from the online