Bergson extends this idea explicitly to the way humans relate to nature.
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Bergson's comic protagonists behave mechanically in relation to nature,
and we laugh about them.
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Rather than mechanically following a plan,
his actions show precisely the elasticity Bergson thought was so essential to what it means to be alive.
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Bergson argues that laughing at this incongruity is a social
tool by which we mildly scold each other for not being adaptive and flexible enough.
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Sounds hard to believe, but it's not rare for new homeowners to be late with their first monthly payment, or to miss it altogether, says Neil Garfinkel,
a real estate attorney with Abrams Garfinkel Margolis Bergson in New York City.