SigPhi · Henri Bergson

Creative Evolution

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Qualities, acts, forms, the classes of representation, 303, 314 bodies as bundles of, 300-1 coincidence of, 309 and movements, 299-300 and natural geometry, 211 superimposition of, in induction, 216 Quality is change, 299-300 in Eleatic philosophy, 314-5 and quantity in ancient philosophy, 323-4 and quantity in modern philosophy, 350 and rhythm, 300-2 Quaternary substances, 121 Quinton, René, 134 _note_ Radius-vector, Heliocentric, in Kepler's laws, 334 Reaction, rôle of, in perception, 226-7 Real activity as distinguished from possible, 145 common-sense is continuous experience of the, 213 continuity of the, 302, 329 dichotomy of the, in modern philosophy, 349 imitation of the, by intelligence, 90, 204, 258, 270, 307, 355 obliteration of outlines in the, 11-2, 188, 189, 207-8 representation of the, by science, 203-4 Realism, ancient, 231-2 Realists and idealists alike assume possibility of absence of order, 220, 231-2 Reason and life, 7, 8, 48, 161 cannot transcend itself, 193-4 Reasoning and acting, 192-3 and experience, 203-4 and matter, 204-5, 208-9 on matter and life, 7, 8 Recollection, dependence of, on special circumstances, 167, 180 in the dream, 202, 207-8 and perception, 180, 181 Recommencing, continual, of the present in the state of relaxation, 201 Recomposing, decomposing and, the characteristic powers of intellect, 157, 251 Record, false comparison of memory with, 5 Reflection, 158-9 Reflex activity, 110 compound, 173-4, 175-6 Refraction of the idea through matter or non-being, 316-7 of reality through forms of perception, 204, 238, 359-60 Regeneration and individuality, 13, 14 Register of time, 16, 20, 37 Reinke, 42 _note_ Relation, imprint of relations and laws upon consciousness, 188 as law, 229, 230-1 and thing, 147-52, 156-7, 160, 161, 187, 202, 352, 357 Relaxation in the dream state, 201, 209-10 and extension, 201, 207-8, 209, 210, 212, 218, 223, 245 and intellect, 200, 207-8, 209, 212, 218 logic a, of virtual geometry, 212 matter a, of unextended into extended, 218 memory vanishes in complete, 200 necessity as, of freedom, 218 present continually recommences in the state of relaxation, 200 will vanishes in complete, 200, 207-8 _See_ Tension Represented or internalized action distinguished from externalized action, 144-7, 158-9, 165 Reproduction and individuation, 13, 14 Resemblance. _See_ Similarity Rest and motion in Zeno, 308-12 Retrogression in evolution, 133, 134 Retrospection the function of intellect, 47-8, 237 Reversed psychology: intuitional cosmology, 208 Rhizocephala and animal mobility, 111 Rhumbler, 34 _note_ Rhythm of duration, 11-2, 127-8, 300-1, 345-7 intelligence adopts the, of action, 305-6 of perception, 299-300, 301 and quality, 301 scanning the, of the universe the function of science, 346-7 of science must coincide with that of action, 320 of the universe untranslatable into scientific formulae, 337 Rings of arthropods, 132-3 Ripening, creative evolution as, 47-8, 340-1 Romanes, 139 Roule, 27 _note_ Roy (Le), Ed., 218 _note_ Salensky, 75 _note_ Same, function of intellect connecting same with same, 199-200, 233, 270 Samter and Heymons, 72 _note_ Saporta (De), 112 _note_ Savage's sense of distance and direction, 212 Skepticism or dogmatism the dilemma of any systematic metaphysics, 195-6, 197, 230-1 Schisms in the primitive impulsion of life, 254-5, 257. _See_ Divergent lines of evolution Scholasticism, 370 Sclerosis and ageing, 19 Scolia, paralyzing instinct in, 172 Scope of action indefinitely extended by intelligent instruments, 141 of Galileo's physics, 357, 370 Scott, 63 _note_ Sea-urchin and individuality, 13 Séailles, 29 _note_ Secondary instincts, 139, 168 Sectioning of becoming in the philosophy of ideas, 317-8 of matter by perception, 206-7, 249, 251 Seeing and willing, coincidence of, in intuition, 237 Self, coincidence of, with, 199 existence of, means change, 1 ff. knowledge of, 1 ff.

Sensation and space, 202 Sensibility, forms of, 361 Sensitive plant, in illustration of mobility in plants, 109 Sensori-motor system. _See_ Nervous system Sentiment, poetic, in illustration of individuation, 258, 259 Serpula, in illustration of identical evolution in divergent lines, 96 Sexuality parallel in plants and animals, 58-60, 119-21 Sheath, calcareous, in illustration of animal tendency to mobility, 130-1 Signs, function of, 158, 159, 160 the instrument of science, 329-30 Sigwart, 287 _note_ Silurian epoch, failure of certain species to evolve since, 102 Similarity among individuals of same species the type of generality, 224-6, 228-9, 230-1 and mechanical causality, 44, 45 Simultaneity, to measure time is merely to count simultaneities, 9, 336, 337, 341 Sitaris, unconscious knowledge of, 146, 147 Situation and magnitude, problems of, 211 Sketching movements, function of consciousness, 207-8 Snapshot, in illustration of intellectual representation of motion, 305, 306, 313, 315, 344 _See_ View of reality, Cinematographical character, etc. form defined as a, of transition, 301-2, 317, 318, 321-2, 345 Society and the individual, 260, 265 Solar energy stored by plants, released by animals, 246, 254 systems, 241-4, 246 _note_, 256, 270 systems, life in other, 256 Solid, concepts analogous to solids, ix intellect as a solid nucleus, 193, 194 the material of construction and the object of the intellect, 153, 154, 161, 162, 251 Solidarity between brain and consciousness, 180, 262 of the parts of matter, 203, 207-8, 241, 271 Solidification operated by the understanding, 249 [Greek: sôma] in Aristotle, 350 Somnambulism and consciousness, 144, 145, 159 Soul and body, 350 and cell, 269 creation of, 270 Spatiality atmosphere of, bathing intelligence, 205 degradation of the extra-spatial, 207 and distinctness, 203, 207, 244, 250, 257-9 and geometrical space, 203, 211, 213, 218 and mathematical order, 208, 209 Spencer's evolutionism, correspondence between mind and matter in, 368 cosmogony in, 188 imprint of relations and laws upon consciousness in, 188 matter in, 365, 367 mind in, 365, 367 Spheres, concentric, in Aristotle's philosophy, 328 Sphex, paralyzing instinct in, 172-5 Spiders and paralyzing hymenoptera, 172 Spinal cord, 110 Spinoza, the adequate and the inadequate, 353 cause, 277 dogmatism, 356, 357 eternity, 353 extension, 350 God, 351, 357 intuitionism, 347 mechanism, 348, 352, 355, 356 time, 362 Spontaneity of life, 86, 237. _See_ Freedom and mechanism, 40 in vegetables, 109 and the willed order, 224 Sport (biol.), 63 Starch, in the function of vegetable kingdom, 114 Static character of the intellect, 155-6, 163, 274, 298 views of becoming, 273 Steam-engine and bronze, parallel as epoch-marking, 138-9 Stentor and individuality, 260 Stoics, 316 Storing of solar energy by plants, 246, 253-6 Strain of bow and indivisibility of motion, 308 Stream, duration as a, 39, 338 Subject and attribute, 147-8 Substantives, adjectives, verbs, correspond to the three classes of representation, 302-4 Substitution essential to representation of the Nought, 281, 283-4, 289-90, 291, 294, 296 Success of physics, 218, 219-20 and superiority, 133, 264-5 Succession in time, 10, 339, 340, 341, 345. 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Juxtaposition Successors of Kant, 363, 364 Sun, 115, 241, 323 Superaddition of existence upon nothingness, 276 of order upon disorder, 236, 275 Superimposition. _See_ Measurement of qualities, in induction, 216 Superman, 267 Supraconsciousness, 261 Survival of the fit, 169. _See_ Natural selection Swim, learning to, as instinctive learning, 193, 194 Symbolic knowledge of life, 199, 342, 360 Sympathetic or intuitive knowledge, 209, 210, 342 Sympathy, instinct is, 164, 168, 172-8, 342-3. _See_ Divination, Feeling, Inspiration Systematization of physics, Liebniz's philosophy, 347 Tangent and curve, analogy with deduction and the moral sphere, 214 analogy with physico-chemistry and life, 31 Teleology. _See_ Finalism Tendency, antagonistic tendencies of life, 13, 98, 103, 113, 135, 150 antagonistic tendencies in development of nervous system, 124-5 complementary tendencies of life, 51, 103, 135, 150, 168, 246 to dissociation, 260 divergent tendencies of life, 54, 89, 99, 101, 107-8, 109-10, 112, 116-8, 134, 135, 150, 181, 246, 254-8 to individuation, 13 life a tendency to act on inert matter, 96 toward mobility in animals, 109, 110, 113, 127-8, 129-33, 135, 181, 182 the past exists in present tendency, 5 to reproduce, 13 of species to change, 85-86 mathematical symbols of tendencies, 22, 23 toward systems, in matter, 10 transmission of, 80-1 a vital property is a, 13 Ternary substances, 121 Theology consequent upon philosophy of ideas, 316 Theorizing not the original function of the intellect, 154-5 Thermodynamics, 241-2. _See_ Conservation of energy, Degradation of energy Thesis and antithesis, 205 Timaeus, 318 _note_ Tools and intellect, 137-41, 150-1. _See_ Implement Tortoise, Achilles and the, in Zeno, 311 Touch, science expresses all perception as touch, 168 is to vision as intelligence to instinct, 169 Track laid by motion along its course, 309-12, 337 Transcendental Aesthetic, 203 Transformism, 23-5 Trigger-action of motor mechanisms, 272 Triton, Regeneration in, 75 Tropism and psychical activity, 35 _note_ Truth seized in intuition, 318-20 Unconsciousness, two kinds of, 144 Undefinable, reality, 13, 48 Undone, automatic and determinate evolution is action being, 249 Unfolding cause, 73, 74 Unforeseeableness of action, 47 of duration, 6, 164, 340-2 of evolution, 47, 48, 52, 86, 224 of invention, 164 of life, 164, 184 and the willed order, 224, 342-3 _See_ Foreseeing Unification as the function of the intellect, 152, 154, 357-8 Uniqueness of phases of duration, 164 Universal interaction, 188, 189 life, consciousness coextensive with, 186, 257, 270 Universe, continuity of, 346 Descartes's, 346 physical, and the idea of disorder, 233, 275 duration of, 10, 11, 241 evolution of, 241, 246 _note_ growth of, 342-3, 344 movement of, in Aristotle, 323 mutability of, 244, 245 as organism, 31, 241 as realization of plan, 40 rhythm of, 337, 339, 346-7 states of, considered by science, 336, 337 as unification of physics, 348-9, 357 Unknowable, the, of evolutionism, xi the, in Kant, 204, 205, 206 Unmaking, the nature of the process of materiality, 245, 248, 249, 251, 272, 342-3 Unorganized bodies, 7-8, 14, 20, 21, 186. _See_ inert matter instruments, 137-9, 140-1, 150-1 matter, cleft between, and the organized, 190, 191, 196, 197-9 matter, imitation of the organized by, 33-4, 35, 36 matter and science, 194-6 matter. _See_ inert matter Unwinding cause, 73 of immutability in Greek philosophy, 325, 352 Upspringing of invention, 164 Variable, time as an independent, 20, 336 Vegetable kingdom. _See_ Plants Verb, relation expressed by, 148 Verbs, substantives and adjectives, 303 Verse and prose, in illustration of the two kinds of order, 221, 232 Vibrations, matter analyzed into elementary, 201 Vicious circle, apparent, of intuitionism, 192-4, 196-7 of intellectualism, 194, 197, 318-9, 320 Virtual actions, 12. _See_ Possible action geometry, 212 Vise, consciousness compressed in a, 179 Vision of God, in Alexandrian philosophy, 322 in molluscs. See Eye of molluscs, etc. in _Salamandra maculata_, 75 Vitalism, 42, 43 Voisin, 80 Volition and cerebral mechanism, 253-4 Voluntary activity, 110, 252 Wasps, instinct in, 140, 172 Weapons and intellect, 137 Will and caprice, 47 and cerebral mechanism, 252 current of, penetrating matter, 237 insertion of, into reality, 305-6, 307 and relaxation, 201, 207-8 and mechanism in disorder, 233 tension of, 199, 201, 207-8 Willed order, mutual contingency of willed order and mathematical order, 231-3 unforeseeability in the, 224, 342-3 Willing, coincidence of seeing and, in intuition, 237 Wilson, E.B., 36 Wolff, 75 _note_ Words and states, 4, 302-3 three classes of, corresponding to three classes of representation, 302-3, 313-4 World, intelligible, 162-3 principle: conciousness, 237, 261 Worms, in illustration of ambiguity of primitive organisms, 130 Yellow-winged sphex, paralyzing instinct in, 172 Zeno on motion, 308-13 Zone of potentialities surrounding acts, 179-80, 181, 264 Zoology, 128-9 Zoospores of algae, in illustration of mobility in plants, 112