Whitehead, Bergson and the bifurcation of nature
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This paper aims to present a Bergsonian approach to the problem of the bifurcation of nature, as exposed by Whitehead in the second chapter of The concept of Nature. The bifurcation of nature, understood as the split between perceived nature and nature that causes perception, culminates, according to Whitehead, in one of the biggest fallacies of modern philosophy. Alongside Whitehead, the French philosopher Henri Bergson stands as a powerful ally in refusing the bifurcation system, by treating everything we apprehend in sensitive perception as belonging to nature.
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