Sunday, July 1, 2012

Mind, Concert Hall, Movie Theater

Bergson's theory of Experience suggests two variations on Hume's image of Mind as a theater--concert hall and movie theater--with the latter, of course, unknown to Hume in his lifetime.  These images illustrate the essential flue of Experience, which Hume's static 'bundle', his most prominent characterization of multiplicity in the theater, falsifies.  But, the pioneer of that concept of Experience is Kant, who first discerns that Temporality is a fundamental condition of whatever transpires in the mental theater.

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