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1. Henri Bergson

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   Duration (La Durée)
   Bergson's concept of duration ($\text{Durée}$) is central to his philosophy, serving as the qualitative, indivisible unfolding of consciousness, standing in sharp contrast to the quantitative, spatialized time measured by clocks and mathematics. For Bergson, scientific time treats moments as discrete points arranged externally to one another, akin to beads on a string. This spatialization, he argued, is a necessary evil of practical human action but fundamentally misrepresents lived experience.
   True duration, conversely, is characterized by hetero…