Arthur Young on Henri Bergson

Yoga of Thinking, Arthur Young Video Archive
http://www.ArthurYoung.com
producer/director: Arthur Bloch, Hypersphere

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Time, space, causality and duration.

photon learning:

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/PBD-quantum-secrets.html

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=when-it-comes-to-photosynthesis-plants-pe...

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[cozmikzen]

ok, i saw this 1, i watched it again tho. i do think everything is ultimately made of photons. so, it is inescapable that photons produce all intelligence. but i dont think i can agree that all photons produce intelligence. a lump of coal and a brain are both made from carbon. can u really think there is no difference? the carbon cell with the life quality interpets data, the coal doesnt. the ability to absorb outside energy thru the membrane seems key. life seems to be magnetic to energy.

[0ThouArtThat0]

There is a huge difference between coal and organized nervous tissue. The difference is essentially the evolutionary process. The reason I think seeing matter as inherently sentient is appropriate is because it offers an explanation for how that nervous tissue could have come to have any inner sense of experience at all. Evolution itself explains more complex forms, but not why those forms are conscious (though evolutionary development leads to MORE consciousness, it does not create it).

[cozmikzen]

well i agree with the last part. but i really cant agree that all matter is sentient. there is an obvious difference in what we would consider living and non-living matter. i guess my ultimate point is, whatever this "life" quality is, it is the same exact thing that has developed into consciousness. as to how a single cell can display enough intelligence to consume & reproduce, i dont know. like i said, it seems like an almost magnetic attraction to nutrients.

[0ThouArtThat0]

yeah, the key is adequately defining "life." Any suggestions?

[alliant]

what if objects contain a potentiality for experience, but become actualized when our minds apprehend them. that is, an organism's mind can 'stretch out' of its body into its surroundings. Rupert Sheldrake often mentions this possibility.

[dpgpqasw2]

life is self-direction

[BoBeRz3]

Does anyone know what Bergson has to say about multiplicity?

thankss =]

[ComplexEmergence]

metabolism, autopoiesis....Di Paolo, 2005 on teleology, adaptability, and autopoiesis seems close enough for me. I dont agree with panpsychism. Why not just say there are emergent strata? Roy Bhaskar sounds closer to the truth, in my own view. If your brain was made of cheese you'd go around swearing the whole universe was dairy product at the deepest level. Seems silly. Although not all things have experience, I would say all things could contain experience ie information.

[Metalogicc]

life = negentropy

[EPADEMC]

please go search EPADEMC on google....

Hes stuck in the matrix!

[cozmikzen]

thats where i am now. it cant be just consumption and reproduction because fires & crystals, and other things do this too. but , the life quality that exist in each living cell is the key. which takes us to some kind of creation,i know u are familiar with some different types of creation. i dont have that answer. but i am going to start looking into cell construction. i know alot about DNA,but i think it has to do with the cell membrane. it "knows" what it needs, and allows matter to pass thru