Duration and Writing

Like Einstein, Bergson is apparently oblivious to Kant's concept of Time as a Form of Experience, and, like most Foundationalists, he presents as "immediately given" a datum that is, in fact, the product of several abstractions.  In contrast, the one methodologically rigorous Foundational scenario in all such cases is: sitting at a desk and writing what eventually is being read in these passages.  Accordingly, everything else that these writers develop is derived from that basis.  Thus, for example, for Bergson, Duration first emerges as the flux of his producing words and sentences, and is a Form of Experience, in that respect.  In particular, the flux consists in a continual modification of what has already been, with an end-point not necessarily in sight.  Accordingly, Memory is fundamentally neither a motor habit nor an incorporeal image, as he proposes, but the retention of an earlier stage in its modification.  Likewise, other concepts in his system require appropriate adjustment.