![]() ![]() Indeed his difficulties would have been even greater if it was difficult to conceive of interaction between the Cartesian res cogitansand res extensa, how could we in any intelligible way conceive of the correlation between the unfolding realm of psychological duration and the completed, timeless, i.e. world of mind and the timeless world of matter, he would have run into the same inextricable difficulties as his seventeenth century predecessor. ![]() Had Bergson retained this sharp distinction of the temporal. It was a dualism of a different kind than the dualism of Descartes: instead of the opposition between extended matter and unextended mind, Bergson posited the duality of the timeless, spatial world and the temporal world of psychological events. Bergsonās first book asserted a sharp dualism of the psychological and the physical world. ![]()
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