David Bohm
American-British · 1917–1992
Theoretical physicist and philosopher who proposed the implicate order as the deep structure of reality, and argued that thought itself is a systemic process whose fragmentation is the root of human conflict.
Wikipedia ↗“In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.”
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“In the implicate order, everything is enfolded into everything. The entire universe is in some way enfolded in each part, and each part is enfolded in the whole. This is the fundamental new feature of the implicate order.”
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“We must learn to view the world as an undivided whole. The notion that all these fragments are separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion.”
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“Thought is a system. That system not only includes thoughts, feelings, and the state of the body; it includes the state of the entire society. It is essential for human beings to perceive this, because the fragmentation of thought is the root of our incoherence.”
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“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.”
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“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”
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“Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process, and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven't really paid much attention to thought as a process. We have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.”
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