Creative Evolution

"...it is not easy, in thinking of time, to escape the image of the hourglass." -Bergson

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[0ThouArtThat0]

@POWLIHERE22 No, I would say time is immeasurable. It is not a quantity of anything. Change is a spatialized symptom of a more fundamental potency. The potency of Time. Time is creativity. "Time is invention or it is nothing at all" -Bergson

[sssswwwsssss]

You're going to love that book; only guard against adoration!

[0ThouArtThat0]

thanks for the advice. what did you think of it?

[GrowthSpiral]

I ended up buying Emerson athnology instead today

[0ThouArtThat0]

I almost bought Thoreau's Walden. Glad to see we are on nearly the same page, so to speak : )

[GrowthSpiral]

same book I was looking at my Barnes and Noble today!! lol

[0ThouArtThat0]

101 years later, Bergson seems to be coming back into vogue, eh?

[Debordsbullet]

have you read Deleuze's book on Bergson?

[AnonymousEconomist]

A measure would mean a magnitude of some dimensional unit. But, measures of time are really just another way of expressing space. That is, the rotation of the earth around the sun, or the rotation of the earth resulting in night and day, etc. So, time really has no measurable reality, but its existence is experienced through novel moments which form a continuum. Without creativity there would be no time, just a clockwork universe where every thing rotates eternally in mechanical rotation.

[blackcrow6667]

The Universe is acting to accomplish just one thing and everything else follows its pattern.

[blackcrow6667]

@chasna2 That's based in psychology of perception, that's not a true measure of what time is.

[rightwingHateSpeech]

@0ThouArtThat0 oh no its not going to work. Should have went for medical.

[POWLIHERE22]

Would you say that time is a measure of change?

[AnonymousEconomist]

The teleological process is an inversion of the mechanical view, but with the exception of variation, that is, time brings the novel element into the accumulation process. In my view, Bergson is saying that God did not bring creation into existence as in the Christian sense, because the existence of God is something of an ongoing birthing process that flows from the existence of time, and that God is a force behind the evolutionary process of creation, as is the universe itself. God grows.

[AnonymousEconomist]

View time as the novel element in the teleological process of evolution. Without time, there is no evolution, because there is no creation. This view of the process of creation would be an inversion of a mechanical view that creation has taken place, and that evolution follows on a causal basis. In the mechanical view, time would be abstract and linear, in the sense of a mathematical model. The axis points cannot connect, therefore, the entire universe is recreated at each point in abstract time

[Debordsbullet]

@chasna2 I've read very little Bergson, and mostly Bergson through Deleuze, but wasn't Bergson a Kantian initially? Did he begin with time being an intuitive faculty?