Bergson and the Holographic - Bergson Holographic

Bergson and the Holographic Theory of Mind

In 1896, in Matter and Memory, Henri Bergson anticipated the essence of Gabor's 1947 discovery of holography by fifty years, and Bohm's (1980) later generalization to the universe itself as being a holographic field. In Matter and Memory, he viewed the brain as creating a modulated reconstructive wave passing through the external holographic field, specifying, or specific to, a subset of that field as an image - my coffee cup, the kitchen table, the stirring spoon.

This site has books of mine, journal articles and conference talks on Bergson, his holographic model of the brain and mind, his solution to the "hard problem" of consciousness (which in truth is the problem of the origin of the image of the external world), his model of time and the problems of the relativistic interpretation of time, his close relation to the great theorist of perception, J. J. Gibson, his deep and inherent critique of the AI /computer model of brain and mind and the notion of any imminent "singularity"
...and some other stuff.

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Articles
(Bergson)

Bergson and the Holographic Theory
(2006) Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 5, 365-394

bergsonandtheholographic.pdf
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Bergson, Perception and Gibson
(2000) Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7, 23-45.

bergson_and_gibson.pdf
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Virtual Action: O'Regan and Noe, Meet Bergson
(2008) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26, 906-907.

bbs-oregan.pdf
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Instinct as Form: The Challenge of Bergson.
(2022) In Anne Malasse (Ed.), Self-Organization as a New Paradigm in Evolutionary Biology:
From Theory to Applied Cases in the Tree of Life, Springer.

bio-form-chapter_2.pdf
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Gibson and Time: The Temporal Framework of Direct Perception
(2023) Ecological Psychology, 35(1), 31-50.

gibson-time-4.pdf
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Articles
(Bergson Related)

On Time, Memory and Dynamic Form
(2004) Consciousness and Cognition, 13, 762-788.

dynamic_form.pdf
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Semantics, Experience and Time
(2002) Cognitive Systems Research, 3, 401-355.

semantics-time.pdf
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On the Possibility of Direct Memory
(2006) In V. W. Fallio (Ed.) New Developments in Consciousness Research. New York: Nova Science.

nova-direct_memory.pdf
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Time, Form and the Limits of Qualia
(2007) Journal of Mind and Behavior, 28, 1-22.

qualia-mind-behavior.pdf
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Semantic Redintegration: Ecological Invariance
(2008) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 726-727.

bbs-semantic_redintegration.pdf
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The Cost of Explicit Memory
(2009) Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 8, 33-66.

explicit_memory.pdf
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The Case for Qualia: A Review
(2010) Journal of Mind and Behavior, 31, 141-156,

qualia-review-final.mht
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Special Relativity and Perception: The Singular Time of Psychology and Physics
(2010) Journal of Consciousness Exploration and Research, 1, 500-531.

relativity-cre-proof.pdf
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Meditation on a Mousetrap: On Consciousness, Cognition, Evolution and Time
(2012) Journal of Mind and Behavior, 33, 69-107.

meditation_on_a_mousetrap.pdf
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Form, Qualia and Time: The Hard Problem Reformed
(2013) Mind and Matter, 2, 1-25.

qualia-reformed-final.pdf
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HOT, Conscious Unity, and the Structure of Events: Extending Friesen's Critique
(2015) Journal of Mind and Behavior, 36, 165-178.

hot_and_events_-_as_extension.pdf
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Analogical Reminding and the Storage of Experience: The Hofstadter-Sander Paradox
(2017) Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 16, 355-385.

analogical_reminding_revision-3.pdf
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Is Experience Stored in the Brain? A Current Model of Memory and the Temporal Metaphysic of Bergson
(April, 2020) Axiomathes

storing_experience-2.pdf
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LSD and Perception: The Bergson-Gibson Model for Direct Perception and its Biochemical Framework
(2022) Psychology of Consciousness, 9, 305-335.

lsd-perception-2.pdf
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TALKS

Special Relativity and Perception: Bergson's Debate with Einstein
(2005) Thinking in Time, UCLA, Berkeley

relativity-cre-proof.pdf
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Invariance Laws and a Science of Consciousness
(2005) Copenhagen, Towards a Science of Consciousness

tuscon_2005_abstract.mht
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Bergson's Virtual Action
(2001) Virtual Reality: Philosophical Implications, Cognitive Foundations,
and Technological Implications. Vienna, Austria.

virtuality.pdf
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An Ecological Model of Redintegration
(2009) International Conference on Perception and Action, University of Minnesota

icpa15_open_robbins.mht
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Bergson, Gibson and the Image of the External World
(2015) The Anatomy of Matter and Memory: Bergson and Contemporary Theories of Mind,
Perception and Time. Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
(In Press) In Bergson's Scientific Metaphysics (Chapter 6), Yasushi Harai (Ed.) Bloomsbury Press.

bergson-gibson-image-4b.pdf
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Other Stuff

Where was Troy: Wilkens' Remarkable Argument
2004 Sept-Oct. Atlantis Rising #47

troy-3.pdf
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     Subverting the AI Super Intelligence Myth: Bergson's Remarkable Theory
     2015   July-August    Atlantis Rising   #112

bergson_and_superintelligence.pdf
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                 Gravity Waves or Grave Problems?
                 The Strange "Discovery" of LIGO
                 2016 July-August   Atlantis Rising #119 (in press)

gravity_waves_2.pdf
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                        How do Airplanes Really Fly?
                        The Charge Field of the Earth
2017 Atlantis Rising #122
      (with 2020 update)

flight.pdf
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                                            The Myths of Special Relativity
                                             Can it Explain Anything?
                                             2017 Jan-Feb   Atlantis Rising    #121

str_myths.pdf
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