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 (18591941) 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.