The Complex and the Singular
Reality... is a perpetual becoming.
It makes or remakes itself, but it ts
never something made.
— HENRI BERGSON
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WHAT WOULD IT CHANGE in our arts, our sciences, and our technics if time
were conceived as something real? Though over a century has passed since the first
tremors of this fundamental question began to make themselves felt in philo-
sophical and scientific debate in the Western world, the problem stubbornly re-
mains, either largely intractabl