Chapter 1: The Theory of Biological Evolution and its Interpretation."

Chapter 1: The Theory of Biological Evolution and its Interpretation."

I would like to look at chapter 1 of "Bergson's Creative Evolution," on the theory of biological evolution, and its interpretation. This is also only about two pages long, but there is a symbolic expression, "a sense that is transmitted from ancestor to descendant, and yet is common to all descendants," which says that on the canvas the descendants leave the creative work of naming.

By "nothing" we do not mean to say that "nothing exists." Nothingness is not the absence of something; rather, it is the precondition for its existence. In other words, the appearance of a living being is not the emergence of something out of "nothingness," but something - like an "image" in the samurai's memory - something that is partially cut out of the omnipresent image It means that something appeared as a partial cutout of the "image" of the whole universe.

In short, it is compared to "embroidery. So "nothingness" is "material," not "nothing. Life emerges partially from the material. That is what "embroidering" means.

The embroidery cannot be the whole cloth itself, but each embroidery has some form. And the shapes are similar. Perhaps that is what leads to the "eye" story that is about to come up.

The organ called "eye" appears in many different species. It is, in a sense, almost fractal. There are branches, and since they originally diverged from the same thing, organs with similar structures appear in each species. The origin is the same. This is what is expressed in one word: "creative evolution.

There is a whole universe, and from there it gradually branches off into parts. And then it is divided into smaller and smaller parts. What was originally one is now divided. This is similar to the reality of a cell. Since what originally existed in the universe divided, the original is the same, and the present branching point contains everything.

This kind of structure can be explained in the context of fractals and entropy, but in a time when these concepts were undeveloped, I think it was still something that could not be explained by mathematics.