Duration<\/strong> is a theory<\/strong> of time and consciousness posited by the French philosopher Henri Bergson. Duration<\/strong> is ineffable and can only be shown indirectly through images that can never reveal a complete picture. It can only be grasped through a simple intuition of the imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Laughter comes from the surprise of suddenly seeing ‘the mechanical encrusted on the living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cyborg is a hybrid – neither man nor machine. But what Fisher is discussing is becoming an (un)dead machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Uncanny valley<\/strong> – a hypothesized relationship between the degree of an object’s resemblance to a human being and the emotional response to such an object. The concept suggests that\u00a0humanoid\u00a0objects which imperfectly resemble actual human beings provoke\u00a0uncanny\u00a0or strangely familiar feelings of eeriness and revulsion in observers.” Valley” denotes a dip in the human observer’s affinity for the replica, a relation that otherwise increases with the replica’s human likeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Which comes first: the mater or consciousness. Henri Bergson. Bergson considers the appearance of novelty as a result of pure undetermined creation, instead of as the predetermined result of mechanistic forces. His philosophy emphasises pure mobility, unforeseeable novelty, creativity and freedom; thus one can characterize his system as a process philosophy. Duration is a theory of time and … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/avimationyear1.myblog.arts.ac.uk\/files\/2021\/03\/MzQwNjE2MQ.jpeg\")
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