Re:Henri Bergson, Celebrity
by dajon on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @07:18AM
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My only knowledge of Henri Bergson is from perhaps a less intellectual source, the Monty Python sketch 'Spot the brain cell':
Cleese: ... Well your first question for the blow on the head this evening is: What great opponent of Cartesian dualism resists the reduction of psychological phenomena to physical states?
Jones: I don't know that!
Cleese: Well, have a guess.
Jones: Henri Bergson.
Cleese: Is the correct answer!
Jones: Ooh, that was lucky. I've never even heard of him.
Cleese: ... Well your first question for the blow on the head this evening is: What great opponent of Cartesian dualism resists the reduction of psychological phenomena to physical states?
Jones: I don't know that!
Cleese: Well, have a guess.
Jones: Henri Bergson.
Cleese: Is the correct answer!
Jones: Ooh, that was lucky. I've never even heard of him.