Wholeness and the implicate order / David Bohm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bohm, David, 1917-1992, author.

Series:

Routledge classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum theory.

Physics: philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Fragmentation and wholeness

Appendix: Resume of discussion on Western and Eastern forms of insight into wholeness

The rheomode: an experiment with language and thought

Reality and knowledge considered as process

Hidden variables in the quantum theory

Quantum theory as an indication of new order in physics, Part A: The development of new order shown through the history of physics

Quantum theory as an indication of a new order in physics, Part B: Implicate and explicate order in physical law

The enfolding-unfolding universe and consciousness.

Notes:

Originally published: London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1134438729

1134438737

1283882876

9786610111220

1280111224

0203995155

9780203995150

OCLC:

60885022