#decoding schopenhauer's metaphysics

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Here I am in the presence of images, in the vaguest sense of the word, images perceived when my senses are opened to them, unperceived when they are closed . . . The afferent nerves are images, the brain is an image, the disturbance traveling through the sensory nerves and propagated in the brain is an image too . . . To make of the brain the condition on which the whole image depends is in truth a contradiction in terms, since the brain is by hypothesis a part of this image.

Henri Bergson qt. in Bernardo Katsrup, Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics