Bergson, Pure Memory, Motor-Memory

Bergson distinguishes pure Memory from motor-memory, and his assertion of the independence of the former from the latter is essential to his thesis of the superiority of Spirit over Matter. According to him, experiential evidence of such independence is that the stages of the development of a motor-memory, e. g. the learning of a lesson, can also be remembered as individual events, independent of their implication in a cumulative process. However, on that interpretation, my recollection of having stated "three" is independent of my having stated "one" and "two", or that my memory of passing a soccer ball to a high school teammate is independent of my having learned to play soccer, having attended that high school, having lived in that town, etc. In other words, Bergson's example does not demonstrate that his assertion of the independence of these individual memories from others is not question-begging, i. e. that the independence is not a product of abstraction. Hence, the example does not demonstrate the independence of pure Memory from motor-memory, thereby weakening his thesis that Spirit is superior to Matter, to whatever extent that thesis depends on the example.