Henri Bergson’s Turing Test for Humans
As other media scholars have argued, in his own media contexts of mass journalism, radio and cinema, the French philosopher Henri Bergson theorized the meanings of the “virtual,” as something more than a mere opposition to “reality.” We know too that Bergson’s theories of time influenced cybernetics in the second half of the twentieth century. However, in this talk, I try to take those insights a step further, in order to assess Bergson’s […]
CDCS Colloquium: Professor Carolyn Biltoft – Annenberg School for Communication