The more of these moments memory can contract into one, the firmer is the hold which it gives to us on matter : so that the memory of a living being appears indeed to measure, above all, its powers of action upon things, and to be only the intellectual reverberation of this power. Let us start, then, from this energy, as from the true principle : let us suppose that the body is a centre of action, and only a centre of action. We must see what consequences thence result for perception, for memory, and for the relations between body and mind.
Perception is master of space in the exact measure in which action is master of time.
— Henri Bergson, from Matter and Memory
Further Reading:
https://brocku.ca/MeadProject/Bergson/Bergson_1911b/Bergson_1911_05.html
https://epochemagazine.org/50/creative-recollection-bergsons-theory-of-memory/
Click to download a pdf copy of Matter and Memory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_and_Memory
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bergson/#PercMemo
Emily Herring / Herald of a Restless World, how Henri Bergson brought philosophy to the people
https://share.google/aimode/qjOPizFa2d2U8Ab4v
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/literature-and-writing/matter-and-memory-henri-bergson
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