Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Duration, Gestalt, Locomotion

As has been previously discussed, for Bergson, Duration is an object of Description.  He, thus, does not consider the possibility that it is a product of a Gestalt.  Now, on his own account, the perception of Duration, and, hence of the Elan Vital of which Duration is a characteristic, is not casual, but requires exertion, i. e. attention.  Now, the physicality of such exertion can go unnoticed when it is directed at maintaining the immobility of the rest of the body.  But it becomes patent when the occasion is full mobility, e. g. when trying to keep an erect posture while walking.  In those wholistic cases, a Gestalt can involve the coordination of multiple motions, i. e. their Synchronization.  So, though he recognizes the volitional significance of Locomotion, as has been previously discussed, he neglects that it can exhibit that its Duration can also have an inner synchronic dimension, i. e. has volume.  On that basis, the seemingly passively observed, diachronic, disembodied, flux, that is his usual topic of interest, is the object of a superficial consciousness of an immobile subject.

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