Creative Evolution (L'Évolution créatrice)

Bergson’s Creative Evolution (L’Évolution créatrice) (1911), published by Henry Holt and Company, sits in the program’s reference corpus as a standing technical source. Cited in Book VI (Categorical Life), Part 7, Chapter The Self-Enrichment Ladder: E₀–E₃ Complete, where the program draws on it in the context of “Vitalism holds that life requires a special substance or force—the 'elan vital —that is absent from non-living matter and irreducible to physics.”