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Full Idea
If duration [experienced time] is what we say, deep-seated psychic states are radically heterogeneous to each other, and it is impossible that any two of them should be quite alike, since they are two different moments in a life-story.
Gist of Idea
Experienced time means no two mental moments are ever alike
Source
Henri Bergson (Time and Free Will [1889], p.220), quoted by Pete A.Y. Gunter - Bergson p.174
Book Ref
'A Companion to Continental Philosophy', ed/tr. Critchley,S/Schroeder,W [Blackwell 1999], p.174
A Reaction
This implies that we are intrinsically unpredictable, and there certainly can't be a regularity account of mental causation. The sense of time is said to make the self radically different from the rest of reality. Bergson later rejected dualism.
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21854 | Bergson showed that memory is not after the event, but coexists with it [Bergson, by Deleuze] |
22100 | Experienced time means no two mental moments are ever alike [Bergson] |
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