From Henri Bergson's Theory of Perception to the Ben-Yehudah Investigation of SOURCE CONSCIOUSNESS: The Receiving Brain and the Interpretive MIND

From Henri Bergson's Theory of Perception to the Ben-Yehudah Investigation of SOURCE CONSCIOUSNESS: The Receiving Brain and the Interpretive MIND This scientific, historical, philosophical, and theoretical manuscript examines the relationship between Henri Bergson's theory of perception and Yeshayahu Ben-Yehudah's independent investigation of SOURCE CONSCIOUSNESS, biological reception, and the interpretive MIND. The investigation begins with Bergson's 1896 publication, Matière et mémoire (Matter and Memory), in which he challenged the understanding of perception as a representation produced entirely within the biological brain. Bergson proposed that the body functions principally as an instrument of action and that perception involves the selection of information relevant to an organism's possible responses to its environment. Particular attention is given to Bergson's distinctions among pure perception, memory, habit-memory, and duration. His philosophical investigation questioned whether the biological mechanisms involved in perception and action fully explain the nature of conscious experience. The manuscript examines these historical propositions alongside the Ben-Yehudah Transducer Model, which identifies SOURCE CONSCIOUSNESS as foundational, proposes that the biological brain functions principally as a receiver, and distinguishes the interpretive activity of the MIND from biological reception. The comparison identifies conceptual relationships between Bergson's understanding of perception as selection and Ben-Yehudah's distinction between reception and interpretation. However, the investigation preserves their differences. Bergson's theory of perception is not presented as an experimentally established receiving-brain model, nor is it treated as identical to the Ben-Yehudah framework. The author's first-person observations of continuous STILLNESS, RECEPTION, ZERO INTENT, and the SUBJECT–WITNESS–OBSERVER relationship provide the experiential context for his independent investigation of consciousness. Contemporary neuroscience concerning sensory reception, neural processing, memory, and neural correlates of consciousness is examined to distinguish established biological findings from historical philosophical propositions and the author's theoretical framework. The manuscript addresses the relationship between perceived reality, biological processes, interpretation, and the unresolved question of consciousness as foundational rather than assuming that the limits of perception establish the existence of an independent consciousness SOURCE. Central Finding “Consciousness is the source of ALL” ~ YBY The central finding is that Henri Bergson's theory of perception provides a historical philosophical precedent for distinguishing the biological functions involved in perception from broader questions concerning the nature of consciousness. Bergson's account emphasized that perception is selective and connected to possible bodily action. His distinctions among perception, memory, and duration challenged explanations that treated conscious experience as reducible to representations generated entirely within the brain. The Ben-Yehudah investigation approaches a related philosophical question through a distinct theoretical framework in which SOURCE CONSCIOUSNESS is foundational, the biological brain functions principally as a receiver, and the MIND interprets what becomes available through reception. The author's philosophical position is further expressed through the statements: “I AM Consciousness experiencing Human Form” ~ YBY “All things perceived in the physical realm is DOWNSTREAM of consciousness” ~ YBY The investigation identifies conceptual convergence concerning the distinction between biological activity and the totality of conscious reality while preserving important differences between Bergson's selective theory of perception and the Ben-Yehudah proposition of biological reception from SOURCE CONSCIOUSNESS. The author's lived investigation also includes continuous STILLNESS, RECEPTION, ZERO INTENT, and the SUBJECT–WITNESS–OBSERVER relationship, together with the established Ben-Yehudah Six-Pillar Discipline: STILLNESS → AWARENESS → OBSERVATION → DISCERNMENT → INTEGRATION → TRANSMISSION SOURCE CONSCIOUSNESS remains foundational and is not designated as a seventh pillar. The investigation distinguishes Bergson's philosophical concept of duration from the author's continuous STILLNESS and RECEPTION. These concepts are examined comparatively without asserting that they describe identical experiences. The central scholarly contribution is the clarification of the historical relationship between Bergson's theory of perception and the Ben-Yehudah investigation while maintaining their independent philosophical foundations, theoretical distinctions, and scientific limitations. Scope of the Investigation This manuscript is an independent historical, philosophical, theoretical, phenomenological, and comparative scientific investigation. It does not report original controlled neurological experiments. The study examines Henri Bergson's Matter and Memory (1896), his understanding of perception as selection, the biological body's relationship to action, the distinction between pure perception and memory, habit-memory, and his philosophical concept of duration. These historical propositions are compared with the Ben-Yehudah Transducer Model and the author's previous investigations concerning SOURCE CONSCIOUSNESS, biological reception, the interpretive MIND, observational fidelity, and the relationship between consciousness and human form. The investigation incorporates the author's firsthand accounts of continuous STILLNESS, RECEPTION, ZERO INTENT, and SUBJECT–WITNESS–OBSERVER experience as phenomenological observations within his independent scholarly framework. Contemporary scientific research concerning sensory processing, neurological mechanisms of memory, cognitive interpretation, and neural correlates of consciousness provides comparative context. The manuscript identifies unresolved questions concerning the nature of a proposed consciousness SOURCE, the biological mechanisms through which reception might occur, the distinction between reception and interpretation, and the experimental conditions necessary to evaluate reception-based explanations. The study does not establish that Bergson experimentally demonstrated the independent existence of consciousness beyond the brain. It does not establish a verified biological mechanism through which SOURCE CONSCIOUSNESS is received or demonstrate that the Ben-Yehudah Transducer Model has been empirically validated. The manuscript distinguishes documented historical arguments, contemporary scientific findings, the author's original philosophical positions, and first-person experiential observations. The relationship among consciousness, perception, biological reception, interpretation, and the experience of reality remains subject to further historical, philosophical, and independently verifiable scientific investigation. Artificial Intelligence Disclosure Artificial intelligence was used to assist with historical research, comparative philosophical and scientific analysis, manuscript organization, drafting, language refinement, bibliographic development, reference identification, and editorial preparation. The foundational philosophical concepts, theoretical propositions, lived experiences, original observations, attributed quotations, the Ben-Yehudah Transducer Model, the SUBJECT–WITNESS–OBSERVER framework, and the Ben-Yehudah Six-Pillar Discipline are attributed to Yeshayahu Ben-Yehudah. The historical comparison between Henri Bergson's theory of perception and the Ben-Yehudah investigation of SOURCE CONSCIOUSNESS was developed through human–AI scholarly inquiry. Bergson's documented historical arguments are distinguished from the author's independent theoretical framework and experiential observations. The manuscript does not report original controlled experiments or independently verified evidence demonstrating that consciousness exists outside the biological brain. Historical, philosophical, and scientific claims remain subject to source verification and independent scholarly evaluation. The author retains responsibility for determining whether the manuscript accurately preserves his original observations, philosophical distinctions, theoretical propositions, and scholarly conclusions. Author: Yeshayahu Ben-YehudahProfessional Designation: Independent Scholar | Theorist | Philosopher | Researcher | WriterInstitution: The Ben-Yehudah InstituteORCID ID: 0009-0002-9256-1093DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.24041291