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Because a qualitative multiplicity is heterogeneous and yet interpenetrating, it cannot be adequately represented by a symbol.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bergson/

Disjoint union ∐ would be an adequate representation for the concept of qualitative multiplicity. We can think about Begrsonian time as a disjoint union of memories.

Duration, for Bergson, is continuity of progress and heterogeneity; moreover, thanks to this image, we can also see that duration implies a conservation of the past. Indeed, for Bergson and this is the center of his truly novel idea of memory, memory conserves the past and this conservation does not imply that one experiences the same (re-cognition), but difference. One moment is added onto the old ones, and thus, when the next moment occurs, it is added onto all the other old ones plus the one that came immediately before.

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True freedom lies in a power to decide, to constitute problems themselves.

..stating the problem is not simply uncovering, it is inventing. Discovery, or uncovering, has to do with what already exists, actually or virtually; it was therefore certain to happen sooner or later. Invention gives being to what did not exist; it might never have happened.

...the history of man, from the theoretical as much as from the practical point of view is that of the construction of problems. It is here that humanity makes its own history, and the becoming conscious of that activity is like the conquest of freedom.


--quoted from Bergsonism, by Gilles Deleuze. 1988.