Wholeness and the Implicate OrderDavid Bohm was one of the foremost scientific thinkers and philosophers of our time. Although deeply influenced by Einstein, he was also, more unusually for a scientist, inspired by mysticism. Indeed, in the 1970s and 1980s he made contact with both J. Krishnamurti and the Dalai Lama whose teachings helped shape his work. In both science and philosophy, Bohm's main concern was with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular. In this classic work he develops a theory of quantum physics which treats the totality of existence as an unbroken whole. Writing clearly and without technical jargon, he makes complex ideas accessible to anyone interested in the nature of reality. |
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |
Fragmentation and Wholeness | |
The Rheomode An Experiment with Language | |
Reality and Knowledge Considered as Process | |
The Thing and the Thought | |
Thought and NonThought | |
The Field of Knowledge Considered as Process | |
Hidden Variables in the Quantum Theory 1 Main Features of the Quantum Theory 2 Limitations on Determinism Implied by the Quantum Theory 3 ... | |
The Indivisibility of Quantum Processes | |
Explanation of Quantization of Action | |
Discussion of Experiments to Probe SubQuantum Level | |
Conclusion | |
Quantum Theory as an Indication of a New Order | |
What is Order? | |
Structure as a Development from Order and Measure | |
Quantum Theory | |
Arguments in Favour of the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanical Indeterminism as Irreducible Lawlessness | |
Bohrs Resolution of the Paradox of Einstein Rosen and Podolsky The Indivisibility of all Material Processes | |
Preliminary Interpretation of Quantum Theory in Terms of Hidden Variables | |
Criticisms of Our Preliminary Interpretation of Quantum Theory in Terms of Hidden Variables | |
Steps Toward a More Detailed Theory of Hidden Variables | |
Treatment of Quantum Fluctuations | |
Heisenbergs Indeterminacy Principle | |
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