Creative Evolution

Creative Evolution develops Bergson's central category of duration — lived, flowing, qualitative time as directly experienced — sharply distinguished from the spatialised, measurable time of science. Reality is fundamentally becoming: a continuous, indivisible creative flux that the intellect, useful for action, freezes into static concepts and discrete objects.

To dramatise this, the work proposes the élan vital, a vital impetus driving life's unpredictable, creative diversification against the running-down of matter, and it privileges intuition — a sympathetic identification from within — as the faculty that grasps the living movement the analytic intellect misses.

It is an important ancestor of the conviction that reality is a living, creative flow and that direct intuitive consciousness reaches truths analysis cannot. Its vitalism and its sense of time as creative becoming shaped Whitehead and Teilhard de Chardin, while its non-materialist view of mind is cited in survival discourse. The honest framing is that the élan vital did not survive as science.