Matter & Memory

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Henri Bergson. Matter & Memory

Matter & Memory

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INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: Of the Selection of Images For Conscious Presentation. What Our Body Means and Does

Chapter 2: Of the Recognition of Images. Memory and Brain

Chapter 3: Of the Survival of Images. Memory and Mind

Chapter 4: The Delimiting and Fixing of Images. Perception and Matter. Soul and Body

Summary and Conclusion

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Henri Bergson

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Summary and Conclusion

Now, as soon as we do, indeed, apply to positive facts for such information as may help us to solve the problem, we find it is with memory that we have to deal. This was to be expected, because memory — we shall try to prove it in the course of this work — is just the intersection of mind and matter. But we may leave out the reason here: no one, at any rate, will deny that, among all the facts capable of throwing light on the psycho-physiological relation, those which concern memory, whether in the normal or in the pathological state, hold a privileged position. Not only is the evidence here extremely abundant (consider the enormous mass of observations collected in regard to the various kinds of aphasia), but nowhere else have anatomy, physiology and psychology been able to lend each other such valuable aid. Any one who approaches, without preconceived idea and on the firm ground of facts, the classical problem of the relations of soul and body, will soon see this problem as centering upon the subject of memory, and even more particularly upon the memory of words: it is from this quarter, undoubtedly, that will come the light which will illuminate the obscurer parts of the problem.

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