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they (Bergson and Whitehead) both regarded physical events as ‘proto-mental entities’ to use a term recently coined by Professor Abner Shimony. This proto-mental character of microphysical entities was also mentioned by other contemporary thinkers, though more cursorily; such as Bertrand Russel[1] when he observed in 1950 that matter in modern physics becomes ‘as allusive as fleeting thoughts’ or by David Bhom[2] when only one year later he pointed out some striking resemblance between the mental processes and quantum phenomena”