Bergson, Spirit, Pluralism

While Bergson's Spirit is Monistic, he, at minimum, lacks grounds for denying that it is Pluralistic. Its Monism is based on the presumption that the creative impetus is, in every case, e. g. in the drawing of a line, in the writing of a poem, in the generating of a new species, one and the same process. But, evidence of such identity cannot be given to the immediate consciousness of such movements. To the contrary, the positing of that identity appears to concrete consciousness as entailing abstraction and generalization. What is instead concretely given is the occurrence of distinct acts of creativity, in which specific 'congealing of Matter', as Bergson characterizes it, is not a digression from creativity, but constitutes its very fulfillment. On that interpretation, which Bergson, at minimum, lacks grounds to refute, Creativity consists in the Materialization of Spirit, in which both Matter and its multiplicity are intrinsic to elan vital.