① what part of words fall within bodily perception?

this is the question from my reading of Bergson this morning. Arguing against the idea, which has returned since he was writing and entrenched itself as neuroscientific dogma, that memories are stored as images somewhere in the cells of the brain, Bergson suggests a motor-diagramme acquired by the body as it acquires language, which comprises a map of the movements elicited by hearing the words, so is a direct, once learnt, bodily response to them. The body for Bergson is a centre of action—and the brain neither more nor less than the central relay of the nervous system. Connecting incoming signals to outgoing signals for action, it engages a delay, an hesitation, into which images interpose themselves, which is all of free will and all of consciousness: Consciousness is that zone of indetermination. To recognise a word requires that the perception engages a bodily attitude, a movement towards it, when the word is at the tip of one's tongue.

The part of words is different that falls within bodily perception than that which draws meaning from the images of recollection; and different again is the part of words that falls within poetic perception, which is more like the outsides of words, words as themselves images, or that falling within philosophical reflection, where, as Deleuze says, concepts are created.

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