![]() The fact that this image managed to find its way, through Whitehead’s Process and Reality, into modern embryology via the work of C. In this paper I isolate one in particular, that of the canal, or of canalization. It is for this reason that so many images populate and animate Bergson’s philosophy of life. ![]() We thus require an image by which to imagine it. This is because life, on the Bergsonian account, exceeds any of the conceptual frames through which it can be determined. But Bergson insisted that this was only an image borrowed from psychology - the best one available, but an image no less. It is well known that life is to be thought, according to Bergson, as a kind of impetus, a drive or force. In this paper I unearth a striking line of development that runs from Bergson through Whitehead and into modern embryology. Indeed, Bergson’s Creative Evolution stands as one of the most serious engagements with the problem of life in recent philosophical history. ![]() ![]() When Whitehead famously wrote that the status of life in nature constituted the modern problem of both philosophy as well as science, he may well have had Bergson in mind. ![]()
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