NAPETOST I OPUŠTENOST: MEMORIJA, ŽIVOT I VREME U BERGSONOVOJ I ŠELINGOVOJ FILOZOFIJI
TENSION AND LOOSENESS: MEMORY, LIFE AND TIME IN BERGSON’S AND SCHELLING’S PHILOSOPHY

Summary/Abstract: According to actual research in the field of artificial intelligence and in the area of psychedelic substances, the concept of consciousness is coming again under philosophical magnifying glass. Two philosophers who processed the dual concepts of conscious/unconscious, present/past, and instinctive/intelligent in a similar way are German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling and French philosopher Henri Bergson. Bergson’s autonomous hypostasis of memory, in accordance with the concept of consciousness as a filter-eliminating mechanism, gives us an explanatory theory and a closer understanding of specific characteristics of psychedelic trips and experiences that are not necessarily conditioned with only the psycho-physical states of the individual and the environment in which she is located. Also, a connection we have between the state of dream, psychedelic trip, certain psychosis, and death is going to be questioned through the prism of Bergson’s ontology in accordance with the newest scientific research and different philosophical positions, one of which is the analytical idealism of Bernardo Kastrup. On the other hand, the genesis of the present moment (then-now) is dealt with, which is very precisely and clearly presented in Schelling’s third edition of the unfinished work TNe Ages o/ tNe World, while the relationship between consciousness and the present, the unconscious and the past is interpreted in the work as a forerunner of some of Bergson’s insights. Therefore, the offered oppositional conceptual pairs that the aforementioned philosophers offer us depict the dual aspect nature of reality and provide us with outlines for interpreting the greatest mysteries of life’s symphony.

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