Successiveness and Cumulation

On the thesis that Experience is cumulative, in a successive sequence A-B, A and B are not discrete data, but not because they are moments of a seamless flux, as Bergson argues. Rather, as the later datum in a accumulating progression, B includes A. That is, B is the resultant of some novel influence X that combines with the hitherto achieved culmination A. So, it is not so much because of the structuring role of human cognitive faculties that X cannot be experienced directly, as Kant argues. It is because beyond the moment of birth, the human mind is never again a tabula rasa, as even Locke fails to recognize as he propounds his Empiricist Epistemology. Likewise, Bergson, even when acknowledging that the flux of Duration in Consciousness is cumulative, continues to treat each current datum as an entirely novel datum, thereby missing how it is in part constituted by the data that have preceded it.