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Today's episode is part two of what we started last time on Henry Bergson.

I hope you love the show today.

So in response to all the different theories about what makes us laugh that have been laid out

historically, Henry Bergson presents his famous hybrid theory and his work released in the year 1900

understandably titled Laughter. Now by the end of our explanation here today,

we're going to ultimately conclude with the idea that Bergson believes laughter at its core

is ultimately a message to other people. But to understand what he means by that,

we're going to need to have a deeper understanding of why he thinks we laugh when we witness

the mechanical and trusted upon the living. But to understand that, we're going to need some more

detail about one of the key ideas that helps him ground his entire worldview process philosophy.

And to get started doing that, we got to go all the way back to episode one of this show

to a presacratic philosopher born in the year 535 BC, a man by the name of Heraclitus.

So because it was seven years ago, if Heraclitus was going to make a bumper sticker of the simplest

way to put his biggest idea, it would be that he thought the universe is always in a state of flux

or constant change. We could also think of flux in terms of the universe being ever flowing,

flowing between dueling polarities, day and night, good and evil, chaos and order.

Existence flows between things that seem to be opposites that are in fact two sides of the same

coin to Heraclitus. Two different states of a larger overall process that is constantly in flux.

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