In Chapter I of Germinal Life Ansell Pearson says that it is Henri Bergson who defines the task of of philosophy as one of learning to think beyond the human condition. Pearson says that going 'beyond' the human condition does not entail leaving the 'human' behind, but rather aims to broaden and deepen the horizon of its experience. This is the task of an autonomous philosophy, and it requires a major orientation of philosophy, a new concept of critique, and a new logic that proceeds through nuances and not contradiction. (pp. 20-21).

My concern is with vitalism rather than intuition and duration. Pearson says that Bergson's vitalism is often portrayed as being outside the Darwinian tradition. This overlooks:

...the extent to which there is a serious and informed engagement with Darwinian theory in Creative Evolution (1907). Moreover, a great deal of Bergson's position can be seen to resonate with with contemporary developments in biophilosophy, such as complexity theory, where the focus is on an understanding of living systems as dynamical systems, in which organisms do not simply passively adapt to changes in the environment but rather are seen to develop internal structures which serve to mediate the environment, including the 'meaning' an environmment has for an organism as a complex living system. (p.40)