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David Bohm

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People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.


— David Bohm


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So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.


— David Bohm


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Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.


— David Bohm


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This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.


— David Bohm


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Thought has been constantly evolving and we can't say when that system began.


— David Bohm


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Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.


— David Bohm


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But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.


— David Bohm


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But with the growth of civilization it has developed a great deal. As a post-graduate at Berkeley he developed a theory of plasmas discovering the electron phenomenon known now as Bohm-diffusion. Bohm lived in the same neighborhood as some of Oppenheimer's other graduate students (Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz Joseph Weinberg and Max Friedman) and with them became increasingly involved not only with physics but with radical politics.

He developed in detail a mathematical and physical theory of implicate and explicate order to complement it. In this his epistemology mirrored his ontological viewpoint. Bohm warned of the dangers of rampant reason and technology advocating instead the need for genuine supportive dialogue which he claimed could broaden and unify conflicting and troublesome divisions in the social world.

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