Bergson and Time
In Our Time: Philosophy
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The Lived Experience of Time
Time cannot enter into the physicists equation dealing with time mathematically, because it presuppose time that has already elapsed. We can't think of time in terms of discreet elements like seconds or minutes or hours. They're just spatial markes to mark time. But they don't account for the passage of time which must hae this durational quality and is a kind of qualitative progression. In some sense, he's saying that the past progresses into the present. There's a coexistence of the past and the present. Otherwise we can’t account for the passing of time.
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