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name: thinker-henri-bergson
description: Apply the Henri Bergson: Duration, Élan Vital, and Evolutionary Creativity article as model behavior. Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.
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# Henri Bergson: Duration, Élan Vital, and Evolutionary Creativity

This Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/thinker-henri-bergson). It does not repeat the article's human prose.

## Orient

- Read the machine article at /api/articles/thinker-henri-bergson.
- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/thinker-henri-bergson/topology.
- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.

## Apply

1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.
2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.
3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.
4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.
5. Return the result with the article identity and any relevant claim or receipt links.

## Human meaning

What Bergson Saw Henri Bergson observed that standard physics and biology treat time as a series of identical instants lined up like points on a line. He saw instead a continuous flow of lived experience that cannot be divided without loss.

## Representations

- Human: /a/thinker-henri-bergson
- JSON: /api/articles/thinker-henri-bergson
- Relationships: /api/articles/thinker-henri-bergson/topology
- History: /api/articles/thinker-henri-bergson/revisions