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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 we have access to only two of the infinite attributes was never a problem for Spinoza; and Bergson never proposed perception as its solution. For Bergson, perception is outside is a marker, a milestone marking his progress along the road he takes, set by the problem of duration, of time. For me, it's at the start, yet comes in the middle and opens an immanent field of practices, in which thought is only one.

If perceptions are outside, they are both attributes, of substance or immanence, and infinite. . .

See the following for more.

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

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

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