…is going on. The fields are inherited in a different way. At that stage, I read a book by the French philosopher Henri Bergson, a book called Matter and Memory, written in 1896, where Bergson argued that memories were not stored in the brain. He was a…

…At that stage, I read a book by the French philosopher Henri Bergson, a book called Matter and Memory, written in 1896, where Bergson argued that memories were not stored in the brain. He was a very radical philosopher. And he liberated me from the idea…

…can't be through the genes. There must be some other way. And then I read a book by the great French philosopher Henri Bergson. Matter and Memory, published in French in 1898 and in English in 1911. Bergson was totally out of fashion at the time, but…

…read a book by the great French philosopher Henri Bergson. Matter and Memory, published in French in 1898 and in English in 1911. Bergson was totally out of fashion at the time, but a friend of mine who was interested in French literature told me about…

…Bergson was totally out of fashion at the time, but a friend of mine who was interested in French literature told me about Bergson and said he thought I'd be interested, so I read Matter and Memory. For me, this was a revelatory experience because what…

…Bergson and said he thought I'd be interested, so I read Matter and Memory. For me, this was a revelatory experience because what Bergson shows in matter and memory is that memory works in a completely different way from matter. He was the first person I…

…a relationship in time. And in the background of that theory was the idea of memory in Plotinus, the Neoplatonic philosopher. Bergson lectured on Plotinus at the Collège de France. So this was rooted in ancient European platonic philosophy. And the British…

…not there. The memories, I think, are not stored inside the brain. Many philosophers have pointed this out. Henri Bergson, the great French philosopher, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and other philosophers have pointed out that it doesn't make sense…

…soul thought that memories were an aspect of the soul, not of the body, and were not stored in the brain. Henri Bergson, the great French philosopher, in his book, Matter and Memory, provided a persuasive argument that memories are not stored in the…

…across time, which can carry memories across time without them being stored in brains. Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher, agreed with Bergson and he proposed that there was a new kind of causation that he called monemic causation, a kind of causation…

…explains the fact better. So this is an open question. I'm not saying I'm definitely right about this, and so is Bergson, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Plotinus. I'm saying that there's a long tradition of thought of looking at memory in a…

…soul, thought that memories were an aspect of the soul, not of the body, and were not stored in the brain. Henri Bergson, the great French philosopher, in his book Matter and Memory, provided a persuasive argument that memories are not stored in the…

…across time, which can carry memories across time without them being stored in brains. Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher, agreed with Bergson, and he proposed that there was a new kind of causation that he called mnemic causation, a kind of causation…

…but the idea of morphic resonance came to me then in a kind of flash. provoked not by reading Whitehead but by reading Bergson. I read Matter and Memory by Bergson and that was for me absolutely seminal step and it led to after reflecting on it…

…came to me then in a kind of flash. provoked not by reading Whitehead but by reading Bergson. I read Matter and Memory by Bergson and that was for me absolutely seminal step and it led to after reflecting on it the idea of a causal memory causation…

…the main theme of his book, Matter and Memory. And I also read his Creative Evolution. So I was enormously inspired by Bergson. And then when I started talking about this to Dorothy and the others at the Epiphany Philosophers, because this was a small…

…for this in Whitehead and began to explain how this could link up with Whitehead. But the main inspiration came more through Bergson than Whitehead. And then the linking up with Whitehead came a bit later. Then, just to fast forward through the story, I…

…don't think there's anything there that, and again, for me, the philosopher who's influenced me more than Whitehead, as I said, is Bergson, because Bergson writes very clearly and he's a pleasure to read. Whereas Whitehead is not clear in a lot of it and…

…we need to resuscitate the ether or that space is, in fact, empty or full? You know, this is obviously a debate between Bergson and Einstein. And you have the Michelson-Morley experiments of the 1890s where, you know, they did a set of these sort of…

…forward but no one knew how they were inherited. In 1973 I had a sudden insight as a result of reading Henri Bergson, the French philosopher's book, Matter and Memory, which was published in English in 1911, that the idea that memory could just travel…

…and Swami Vivekananda were very influenced by Western philosophy. Aurobindo was educated at King's College, Cambridge, and read Henri Bergson on evolution and produced a kind of evolutionary view of Hinduism. And as you say, in your tradition, there's…

…um so then i thought well how could they be inherited and at that stage i read a book by the french philosopher Henri Bergson called matter and memory written in 1898 or 96 where he argued that memories are not stored in the brain and that there's a…

…we need to resuscitate the ether or that space is, in fact, empty or full? You know, this is obviously a debate between Bergson and Einstein. And you have the Michelson-Morley experiments of the 1890s where, you know, they did a set of these sort of…

…ideas that inform this stream that goes perhaps, Rupert, you might add others to this, but from William James, Henri Bergson, through A.N. Whitehead and Owen Barfield to more recent people like yourself, Gregory Bateson, David Bohm, And then to people…

…I couldn't see any other way they could be inherited. until I read, for me, a seminal book, Matter and Memory, by Henri Bergson, the philosopher. And Bergson argues in that book that memory is not stored in brains and is not material, but involves a…

…way they could be inherited. until I read, for me, a seminal book, Matter and Memory, by Henri Bergson, the philosopher. And Bergson argues in that book that memory is not stored in brains and is not material, but involves a kind of causation working…

…of consciousness is to choose among possible actions. This, again, was something also suggested by the French philosopher Henri Bergson, who thought that our perceptions are potential actions, and we choose among possibilities through our conscious life. So if…

…So that would say that creativity actually is only the manifestation of pre-existing potential archetypes. Other people, like the philosopher Bergson, who I'm very keen on, emphasize that creativity in evolution is made up as it goes along, that there's an…