text: This thinker's distinction between "the possible" and "the real" was given a new third term, the "virtual," in a 1996 book about his Â–ism by Gilles Deleuze, who also built on this thinker's ideas in essays about cinema.
full_question: This thinker's distinction between "the possible" and "the real" was given a new third term, the "virtual," in a 1996 book about his Â–ism by Gilles Deleuze, who also built on this thinker's ideas in essays about cinema. This thinker distinguished between qualitative and quantitative types of multiplicity. This man linked emotional detachment to the "meaning of the comic" in three articles on laughter. This man used the image of a tape running between two spools to represent the flow of aging and the growth of memory. This author of Matter and Memory described the succession of conscious states as durÃ©e, or "duration." For 10 points, name this author of Time and Free Will, a French philosopher who discussed a non-mechanistic life force called Ã©lan vital in Creative Evolution.
first_sentence: This thinker's distinction between "the possible" and "the real" was given a new third term, the "virtual," in a 1996 book about his Â–ism by Gilles Deleuze, who also built on this thinker's ideas in essays about cinema.
raw_answer: Henri[-Louis] Bergson