Wholeness and the Implicate Order
David Bohm
Language: English
Pages: 284
ISBN: 0415289793
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
David 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.
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rigidification and objectification of the notion of measure continued to develop until, in modern times, the very word ‘measure’ has come to denote mainly a process of comparison of something with an external standard. While the original meaning still survives in some contexts (e.g., art and mathematics) it is generally felt as having only a secondary sort of significance. Now, in the East the notion of measure has not played nearly so fundamental a role. Rather, in the prevailing philosophy in
expression). However, the dominant form of subject-verb-object tends continually to lead to fragmentation; and it is evident that the attempt to avoid this fragmentation by skilful use of other features of the language can work only in a limited way, for, by force of habit, we tend sooner or later, especially in broad questions concerning our overall world views, to fall unwittingly into the fragmentary mode of functioning implied by the basic structure. The reason for this is not only that the
and radical fragmentation, as well as thoroughgoing confusion, if we try to think of what could be the reality that is treated by our physical laws. At present physicists tend to avoid this issue by adopting the attitude that our overall views concerning the nature of reality are of little or no importance. All that counts in physical theory is supposed to be the development of mathematical equations that permit us to predict and control the behaviour of large statistical aggregates of particles.
actually is the whole of reality. From this point on, one will see, in the whole field accessible to one, no room for change in the overall order, as given by one’s notions of totality, which indeed must now seem to encompass all that is possible or even thinkable. This means, however, that our knowledge about ‘the whole of reality’ will then have to be regarded as having a fixed and final form, which reflects or reveals a correspondingly fixed and final form of what this total reality actually
variable, IC, that is quantized is not obtained by using the simple expression of classical mechanics for the pk in Eq. (14). Rather, it is obtained by using the expression (12), which involves the transformation functions, S, a function that depends on the non-denumerable infinity of variables, qk. In a certain sense, we can say that the old Bohr-Sommerfeld rule would be exactly correct if it were made to refer to the non-denumerable infinity of field variables, instead of just to the values of
