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• My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

  David Bohm

  Order, Feelings, Mind

  "Wholeness and the Implicate Order". Book by David Bohm, 1980.

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• A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.

  David Bohm

  Mind, Development, Common

  David Bohm, Lee Nichol (2004). “On Dialogue”, p.19, Psychology Press

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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. That is to say, one can feel a sense of flow in the stream of consciousness not dissimilar to the sense of flow in the movement of matter in general. May not thought itself thus be a part of reality as a whole? But then, what could it mean for one part of reality to 'know' another, and to what extent would this be possible?

  David Bohm

  Mean, Thinking, Reality

  "Wholeness and the Implicate Order". Book by David Bohm, 1980.

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• The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant (so that to try to assert the truth or falsity of an irrelevant statement is a form of confusion).

  David Bohm

  Truth, Science, Irrelevance

  David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.42, Routledge

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• There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful working hypotheses. For the history of scientific research is full of examples in which it was very fruitful indeed to assume that certain objects or elements might be real, long before any procedures were known which would permit them to be observed directly.

  David Bohm

  Real, Long, Reason Why

  "A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of 'Hidden' Variables. II". Physical Review, Volume 35, No. 2 (p. 188), January 15, 1952.

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• Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.

  David Bohm

  Science, Technology, Mind

  David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.6, Routledge

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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

  Mean, People, Use

  Professor Chris Jenks, David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.19, Routledge

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• The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories, since it does not follow from the quantum theory as such, but rather from the assumption of the unlimited validity of certain of its features, an assumption that can in no way ever be subjected to experimental proof.

  David Bohm

  Science, Principles, Doe

  David Bohm (2004). “Causality and Chance in Modern Physics”, p.47, Routledge

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• In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.

  David Bohm

  Movement, Mechanic, Quantum

  David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.18, Routledge

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• A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.

  David Bohm

  Together, Body, Corporations

  David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.19, Routledge

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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

  Technology, Race, Wonder

  Professor Chris Jenks, David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.1, Routledge

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• From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character.

  David Bohm

  Philosophical, Character, Science

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• If each one of us can give full attention to what is actually ‘blocking’ communication while he is also attending properly to the content of what is communicated, then we may be able to create something new between us, something of very great significance for bringing to an end the at present insoluble problems of the individual and of society.

  David Bohm

  Block, Communication, Giving

  David Bohm, Lee Nichol (2004). “On Dialogue”, p.5, Psychology Press

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• During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

  David Bohm

  Travel, Communication, Past

  David Bohm, Lee Nichol (2004). “On Dialogue”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.

  David Bohm

  Commitment, Reality, Essentials

  David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.18, Routledge

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• This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.

  David Bohm

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.16, Routledge

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• From the point of view of the species, death is part of this whole process. You could say that species have evolved in such a way that individual members last a certain time. Perhaps a certain kind of species would be better able to survive if the individuals didn't last too long. Other kinds could last longer.

  David Bohm

  Death, Views, Long

  Professor Chris Jenks, David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.60, Routledge

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