What is Bergson's concept of duration?
Duration, or 'durée réelle,' is my central concept, referring to the continuous, indivisible flow of our conscious experience. It is not like the ticking of a clock, a series of discrete moments. Instead, it is a qualitative interpenetration of past, present, and future, where each moment carries the weight of what has been and surges into what is to come. The intellect, in its attempt to grasp this, tends to spatialize it, breaking it into static, measurable units, which fundamentally distorts its true nature.
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