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Updated: May 20, 2025
When the mathematician calculates the future state of a system at the end of a time t, there is nothing to prevent him from supposing that the universe vanishes from this moment till that, and suddenly reappears. It is the t-th moment only that counts and that will be a mere instant. What will flow on in the interval that is to say, real time does not count, and cannot enter into the calculation.
It is only the t-th moment that counts that which flows throughout the intervals, namely real time, plays no part in his calculation.... In short, the world on which the mathematician operates is a world which dies and is born anew at every instant, like the world which Descartes thought of when he spoke of a continued creation. To know adequately what really happens we ought, Bergson insists, to see into the intervals, but the mathematician sees only their extremities.
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