Inspired by Henri Bergson (1859-1941) - Duration

Ran Lahav interviews Nikolai Khmyrovi from the Deep Philosophy Group, about what inspired him in the philosopher Henri Bergson, and his idea of “Duration.” Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was an important French philosopher, extremely influential at the beginning of the 20th century, and a Nobel Prize winner in literature. At the center of his philosophy is the concept of DURATION. Duration means lived time, or flowing time. Scientifically, we represent time as a dimension made of discrete points one next to each other, but this “geometric time“ (as Bergson calls) is an abstraction. Real time, the time we experience, is a holistic flow that flows into the future - not a set of separate, static points. Nikolai Khmyrov is a Russian member of the Deep Philosophy Group.