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Work #547 · Early

Time and Free Will (Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience)

Henri Bergson
1889 (doctoral thesis) · French
Philosophy of mind and time · French process philosophy / vitalism

Bergson's 1889 foundational text on durée (lived duration) and free will

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Attribute Time and Free Will (Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience) (Early)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Time and Free Will (Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience)

Central — durée vs. spatialized time.

Space

Time and Free Will (Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience)

The spatialized time critically distinguished from durée.

Matter

Time and Free Will (Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience)

The embodied conscious person experiencing durée.

Observer

Time and Free Will (Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience)

The lived-time-experiencing self.

Energy

Time and Free Will (Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience)

Energies of psychic durée.

Information

Time and Free Will (Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience)

Foundational philosophy-of-lived-time framework.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Time and Free Will (Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience)

Bergson's durée influenced Husserl, Whitehead, Proust, James — major modernist catalyst.