Duration is first introduced by Bergson in his essay Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness. It is used as a defence of freewill in a response to Immanuel Kant, who believed freewill was only possible outside of time and space, but since man cannot transcend time and space, must be accepted for pragmatic purposes alone.[7]
Bergson’s response to Kant is that freewill is only possible within Duration, within which time resides as it really exists. The problem of freewill is not really a problem at all for Bergson, but merely a common confusion among philosophers caused by the immobile time of science being mistaken for the Duration.[8]
To understand this, one must realize while space can be measured, the Duration cannot be. Thus to measure the Duration, it must be translated into the immobile, spatial time of science through a translation of the unextended into the extended. Although an essential practicality of both science and everyday life, it is through this very translation, mistaken for the Duration, that the problem of freewill arises. Since space is a homogeneous, quantitative multiplicity, the Duration becomes juxtaposed and converted into a succession of distinct parts, one coming after the other and therefore caused by one another.(wikşipedia)
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