Why We Can't Use Intelligence to Get Intimate Access to Life

Bergson: The true nature of life is driven by this vital impulse or vitalism. We can't use intelligence to get access to a Lonvy tall because simply by virtue of imposing any human created system of analysis, we are distorting the very phenomena we're trying to study. To Bergson, this explains why no single philosophical or scientific theory has been able to explain why we laugh at things. In other words, the mechanistic view is wrong. Society is not a machine. Nature is not aMachine and we are not the cogs and gears that make it up. Human behavior is a process. It is fluid, flowing between different polarities, singular, continuous. A