26 July

Henri Bergson's famous memory cone. Bergson showed that time doesn't 'pass', like a river. (Actually rivers don't flow or pass either.) What we call the 'present' is the tip of the cone, the most contracted state of time where only one thing happens at once. Those slices of the cone (the A-B) show what happens when we move away from that highly contracted present point, to allow more of the past (which never leaves) to arise, like in daydreams, remembering or sleep. Memories. Time is an elastic state, contracted more or less, not something that flows. Our default state is sleep and even death, living in pure memory, with time uncontracted and fully relaxed so that all events coexist.