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
Fragmentation and wholeness | 1 |
Resume of discussion on Western and Eastern forms of insight into wholeness | 25 |
The rheomode an experiment with language and thought | 34 |
2 An inquiry into our language | 36 |
3 The form of the rheomode | 41 |
4 Truth and fact in the rheomode | 53 |
5 The rheomode and its implications for our overall world view | 59 |
Reality and knowledge considered as process | 61 |
14 Conclusion | 139 |
Quantum theory as an indication of a new order in physics | 141 |
2 What is order? | 146 |
3 Measure | 149 |
4 Structure as a development from order and measure | 151 |
5 Order measure and structure in classical physics | 153 |
6 The theory of relativity | 155 |
7 Quantum theory | 162 |
2 Thought and intelligence | 63 |
3 The thing and the thought | 68 |
4 Thought and nonthought | 71 |
5 The field of knowledge considered as process | 79 |
Hidden variables in the quantum theory | 83 |
1 Main features of the quantum theory | 84 |
2 Limitations on determinism implied by the quantum theory | 85 |
3 On the interpretation of indeterminsim in the quantum theory | 86 |
4 Arguments in favour od the interpretation of quantummechanical indeterminism as irreducible lawlessness | 88 |
5 Bohrs resolution of the paradox of Einstein Rosen and Podolsky the invisibility of all material processes | 93 |
6 Preliminary interpretation of quantum theory in terms of hidden variables | 97 |
7 Criticisms of our preliminary interpretation of quantum theory in terms of hidden variables | 102 |
8 Steps toward a more detailed theory of hidden variables | 108 |
9 Treatment of quantum fluctuations | 110 |
10 Heisenbergs indeterminacy principle | 113 |
11 The indivisibility of quantum processes | 117 |
12 Explanation of quantization of action | 122 |
13 Discussion of experiments to probe subquantum level | 133 |
Quantum theory as an indication of a new order in physics | 177 |
2 Undivided wholeness the lens and the hologram | 182 |
3 Implicate and explicate order | 186 |
4 The holomovement and its aspects | 190 |
5 Law in the holomovement | 197 |
implicate and explicate order in physical law | 199 |
The enfoldingunfolding universe and consciousness | 218 |
2 Resume contrasting mechanistic order in physics with implicate order | 219 |
3 The implicate order and the general structure of matter | 227 |
4 Quantum theory as an indication of a multidimensional implicate order | 236 |
5 Cosmology and the implicate order | 240 |
6 The implicate order life and the force of overall necessity | 245 |
7 Consciousness and the implicate order | 248 |
8 Matter consciousness and their common ground | 262 |
NOTES | 272 |
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