Henri Bergson

In Henri Bergson's book Creativity, time was indivisible, it was fluid. It wasn't the abstract, quantifiable time of math and science, or of clocks. He used the word "duration" to describe the experience of consciousness. "Duration" allowed for a truer appreciation of the real nature of time, as a flux between past, present and future in the process of becoming which could only ever be intuitively grasped. In our compendiums of understanding the error is to mistake intuition for common sense. The latter is practical and cultural. The former perceives the existence of the quantum level, the tiniest of units, but can't demonstrate it. Evolution for Henri, wasn't mechanistic, it was a pure undetermined explosion. It was an easy idea to love.  And indeed the mathematician Penrose would suggest that consciousness itself emerges when the quantum phenomena of superposition occurs in neurons, the energy exchange is corralled by what are called micro-tubules and last long enough to be the source of what Bergson would have considered our experience of time as fluid rather than the mechanistic clock time of bits that are directed by mathematical formulas.