Internet, Memory, Immateriality

Whether or not the binary code that constitutes the fundamental content of the Internet manifests a presentational capacity of Language, it certainly exemplifies its representational function--by recording, storing, and retrieving input.  In other words, it accomplishes what in humans is known as Memory.  The code thus confirms Bergson's hypothesis that the Past is always virtually present, even when it is not being actually accessed.  At the same time, however, it refutes Bergson's thesis that pure Memory must be Immaterial, a thesis that is probably encouraged by the best evidence available at the time--that there is no obvious way that such elaborate imagery can occur within the seemingly small inter-cranial location.  But, of course, as Internet hardware manifests, subsequent micro-technological developments have opened up such spaces to possibilites of indefinite elaboration.  So, its code presents a significant problem for Bergson's cardinal concepts of Duration and Elan Vital, to which, on the basis of his theory of Memory, he attributes Immateriality.