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Bergson’s debate with Einstein swayed the 1921 Nobel committee (2016)
- adrianN 9y agoCan we reduce the clickbait by replacing "This philosopher" with "Henri Bergson"?
- dang 9y agoWe'll use the subtitle.
- adrianN 9y agoI find the parallels to artificial intelligence really interesting. Bergson attributes some kind of magic to time that can't be fully explained by clocks in the same way that consciousness is evoked to argue that brains aren't normal physical systems.
- infradig 9y agoA contemporary of Bergson, the philosopher Samuel Alexander, put that succinctly as "Time is the Mind of Space".
- vaughanb 9y ago>"Time is the Mind of Space" That sounds wonderful but doesn't mean anything. An interesting quote from the article: For many, Bergson’s defeat represented a victory of “rationality” against “intuition.” It marked a moment when intellectuals were no longer able to keep up with revolutions in science due to its increasing complexity.
- pasabagi 9y ago> That sounds wonderful but doesn't mean anything. Why do you think that? I think you have to really understand a field to say that a given statement in it is meaningless. Or are you simply stating that it doesn't mean anything to you? (Which would, after all, be expected if you weren't an expert).
- vaughanb 9y agoNo, it really is just a couple of fancy words strung together. Let's deconstruct it: 1) Space -- Einstein has shown that it's really Space-Time 2) Mind -- there is no real agreement on what "mind" means. Brain? Consciousness? Brain is well defined, consciousness no so. 3) Time -- the 4th dimension of space-time, right? So "Time is the Mind of Space" deconstructs to: "the 4th dimension of space-time is <something to do with thought or thinking or consciousness> of the other three dimensions of space-time."