Bergson, Consciousness, Inertia

One of Bergson's cardinal theses is that the Intellect is an hypostasization of Consciousness that accommodates it to inert Matter, and, is, hence radically opposed to Intuition, which is the Consciousness of dynamic process. But his concept of 'inertia' varies--in some cases he treats it as absolute, and, in others, as only relative, i. e. it consists in processes that have become stabilized. Accordingly, his concept of the Intellect varies as well--in the former case, hypostasization is necessary to accommodate Consciousness to Matter, but in the latter, Consciousness need only adjust to the frequencies of those processes. In other words, insofar as inertia is relative, the Intellect in its successful operation achieves sympathy with Matter, which does not distinguish it from Intuition, which, as Bergson plainly formulates, is a type of Sympathy. Hence, his contention that Intellect and Intuition are radically opposed is only a function of his thesis that Matter is absolutely inert, a thesis which he himself seems at times to disown.