Synopsis:
- Reality is an endless flow of change of the whole
- The upward flow is life, the downward flow is inert matter
- The universe is like a cable railway on a steep incline, with simultaneously ascending and descending cars
- There is an "elan vital" (vital force) that causes life despite the opposition of inert matter
- In human beings Intellect and Intuition have become separated faculties
- Intellect is life observing inert matter
- Intuition is life observing life
- Intellect is related to space (inert matter is located in space)
- Intuition is related to time (life is located in time)
- Intellect can only understand inert matter, not life
- Intuition can grasp life
- We join (flow with) inert matter when habits take over the intellect
- Intellect is simply the contemplation of inert matter
- Space appears to exist to the intellect (space is a practical way to organize inert matter)
- The intellect divides reality into objects
- The "time" coordinate of Newtonian physics is (like space) an artifice to represent inert matter (Newtonian time is a form of space)
- "Time" (not Newton's time) appears to exist to intuition (time is a practical way to organize life)
- Intuition does not divide reality into objects: it grasps the flow of the universe as a whole
- Time is the sequence of conscious events
- We have a memory for habits and a memory for events
- Time is our memory of events
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