Rhythms of the One: Bergson on Plotinus (Dialogue with Pedro Brea and Jack Bagby)

00:00 Bergson’s Two Sources reading idea
00:01:15 Intelligence, instinct & free-will
00:02:40 Plotinus vs Bergson on intellect & space
00:03:53 Vision, rhythm & musical duration
00:05:30 Closed vs open morality & evolution
00:09:38 Embodiment, matter & spiritual growth
00:13:52 Dionysian mysticism, Nietzsche & the body
00:16:48 Matter, potentiality & Aristotle’s legacy
00:23:28 Light, infinity & “image all the way down”
00:27:28 Matter as non-being / Buddhist emptiness
00:33:08 Virtuality, memory & pure duration
00:38:53 Probability, quantum ontology & process thought
00:44:18 Space-time as field of tendencies (relativity)
00:49:38 Light, spatiation & quantum transactions
00:57:28 Non-representational thinking & imageless cognition
01:06:43 Will-to-power, teleology & eternal return
01:11:53 “Finding the divine within” – Plotinus’ aim
01:17:58 Chess masters, intuition & virtual perception
01:24:48 Translation project – goals & workflow
01:30:48 Closing remarks & next-meeting plans