…like the novelty wave, or whether it's all being made up as it goes along. And I'm much influenced in my thinking by Bergson, Henri Bergson. In his book creative evolution he very strongly defends the idea it's all being made up as it goes along. That…

…novelty wave, or whether it's all being made up as it goes along. And I'm much influenced in my thinking by Bergson, Henri Bergson. In his book creative evolution he very strongly defends the idea it's all being made up as it goes along. That doesn't…

…action are linked together. It's not motiveless perception that one's usually carrying out it's linked in some way to action. Bergson said all perceptions are potential actions or possible actions. There's a sense in which they're very closely related. So…

…be inside the brain but right where you are, namely outside me. And this is an idea which is developed with great clarity by Bergson in matter and memory, who gives the notion that what we see, our perceptual world, is all around us and the idea that…

…that will not die. But its practitioners, as you say, they end up in footnotes. They do not have a happy faith. Certainly, Henri Bergson, with his idea of the Elan vital, this is an effort to preserve this idea of the world soul. And yet, you know,…

…the Elan vital, this is an effort to preserve this idea of the world soul. And yet, you know, the fate of Bergson, his influence on modern society, on modern philosophy, is certainly minimal. Alfred North Whitehead is my great favorite. I mean, I think…

…modern world process and reality. He was. He was and remains the great psychedelic philosopher of the 20th century and the heir of Bergson. You had another question? Well, yeah, I'm going to be 84 in the year 2012, and I'm wondering how best to. To…