Abstract

Bergson (1896) left us a conception of virtuality much different than what is understood today. Perception, he stated, is virtual action. This concept was embedded within a holographic framework and within a model that established the relationship between subject and object in terms of time. The invariance structures of Gibson provide the information for driving the action systems and partitioning the environmental field into a virtual subset as Bergson required. When applied to the problem of the brain’s imposition of a scale of time upon the universal field, where the brain is viewed as a dynamical system, this model reveals relativistic implications demanding a far different conception of perception and action.

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