Bachelard's Concept Of Time Analysis

Time is very subjective in terms of how we experience it. To a bored student time can seem endless and the clock ticks away, second by second each taking a lifetime, as we grow older time passes by more and more quickly to the point that find that fond memories that feel as if they were yesterday were days, months , even years ago. Not only is the perception of time divergent for different people, it also evolves as we do, as our lives and situations change so does our view of time. It is based upon our awareness or consciousness. In French philosophy they use their senses to describe and explain how we perceive nature and the world around us. Henri Bergson and Gaston Bachelard both see time in a differing lens, in an polarized way they adhere …show more content…
This method is significantly more scientific than that of Bergson, Bachelard is looking through the world in frames like a film, where each and every frame incapsulates an entire situation and nothing more. It is of no use to try to explain where the future will take us because we simply can only know the present. Bachelard has the advantage of coming after Bergson, he is able to learn from and critique Bergson from a distance without rebuttals, counters, or clarification. He can see the concept of continuity and breaks it down just as motion picture breaks down the world into frames. There is indeed a blur that allows to see past, but the frame itself is a discrete moment, you can separate the film and cut it together in the way the script was designed. Human memories work in much of the same way, the remembering the ideas, is a phenomenon were we recall concepts or past experiences based on the neurons and the links within our own brains. We capture snapshots, however we may remember how we learned it, we may remember all sorts of things but in our mind time is cut into discrete moments. Computers work in the same way, we have its current discrete state of the data, while there are back ups those are also discrete, adding more and more back ups just add more and more discrete events. No matter how much you try to smooth out the data on a computer it will be discrete and self supporting. with a Bergsonian view of the 1’s and 0’s the only part that is continuous would be the writing of the data. But cutting off during the data of writing will corrupt it and render it useless. However when looking at the bigger picture the data is stored elsewhere in a fluid memory allowing for the entire picture to be captured in just a snapshot. Practically all of technology is captured in instants rather than in continuity.