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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

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

Let me say first up that what I am doing is reading Bergson's Matter and Memory, which appeared in French 4 years before the turn of the 19th century in 1896 and in English translation, translated by Nancy Margaret Paul and W. Scott Palmer, 15 years later, in

see also the arrows works by Gordon Matta-Clark, shown here, which don't resemble those of another artist known for arrows, for example, Tàpies, whose textures are rough, Whiteread, who fills a lived volume, Matta-Clark, whose most well-known work is severed and cut, something it is said to do

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