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Ben Woodard - Bergson's Creative Evolution
Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour
The Problem With Individual Agency
I think it makes the question of individual agency very very difficult I mean that's just one thing I sort of see because he seems to kind of advocate it but then he does seem to be a bit like well human beings kind of reached the this special place but it's not really clear how that happened. He's somewhat sympathetic to this notion of orthogenesis right that evolution is it's not teleological per se but it likes once it finds a direction it kind of keeps going in one directionYeah to me it just kind of leaves this question of agency a bit up in the air and may underplay the individual or at the very least in the in the first chapter he himself wants to muddy the
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