The Tyranny of Time: Einstein or Bergson?

The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed our Understanding of Time.

Tyranny of the Majority or Echo Chambers?

If reputation systems weight all perspectives similarly, they may devolve into simple majority rule. But if they give each user reputation scores that take only other similar users’ opinions into account, they run the risk of becoming “echo chambers” in which like-minded people reinforce each others’ views without being open to outside perspectives. Massa discusses design choices and trust metr...

The Socratic Bergson

Tyranny of Door-to-Balloon Time.

Matter-Image or Image-Consciousness: Bergson contra Sartre

What brings together Henri Bergson's Matter and Memory and JeanPaul Sartre's Imagination and The Psychology of Imagination is the question of the ontology of the image. Bergson attempts to use the image to bridge the gap between mind and matter by refusing to distinguish clearly between what he calls “matter-images,” “perception-images,” and “memory-images.” By defining both consciousness and t...