Wholeness and the Implicate Order

by Bohm,David

• ISBN13: 9780415289788
• ISBN10: 0415289785
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this classic work David Bohm, writing clearly and without technical jargon, develops a theory of quantum physics which treats the totality of existence as an unbroken whole.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	x
Fragmentation and wholeness	1	(33)
Appendix: Resume of discussion on Western and Eastern forms of insight into wholeness	25	(9)
The rheomode -- and experiment with language and thought	34	(27)
Introduction	34	(2)
An inquiry into our language	36	(5)
The form of the rheomode	41	(12)
Truth and fact in the rheomode	53	(6)
The rheomode and its implications for our overall world view	59	(2)
Reality and knowledge considered as process	61	(22)
Introduction	61	(2)
Thought and intelligence	63	(5)
The thing and the thought	68	(3)
Thought and non-thought	71	(8)
The field of knowledge, considered as process	79	(4)
Hidden variables in the quantum theory	83	(58)
Main features of the quantum theory	84	(1)
Limitations on determinism implied by the quantum theory	85	(1)
On the interpretation of indeterminism in the quantum theory	86	(2)
Arguments in favour of the interpretation of quantum-mechanical indeterminism as irreducible lawlessness	88	(5)
Bohr's resolution of the paradox of Einstein, Rosen and Podolsky -- the indivisibility of all material processes	93	(4)
Preliminary interpretation of quantum theory in terms of hidden variables	97	(5)
Criticisms of our preliminary interpretation of quantum theory in terms of hidden variables	102	(6)
Steps toward a more detailed theory of hidden variables	108	(2)
Treatment of quantum fluctuations	110	(3)
Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle	113	(4)
The indivisibility of quantum processes	117	(5)
Explanation of quantization of action	122	(11)
Discussion of experiements to probe sub-quantum level	133	(6)
Conclusion	139	(2)
Quantum theory as an indication of a new order in physics	141	(36)
Part A: The development of new orders as shown through the history of physics	141	(1)
Introduction	141	(5)
What is order?	146	(3)
Measure	149	(2)
Structure as a development from order and measure	151	(2)
Order, measure and structure in classical physics	153	(2)
The theory of relativity	155	(7)
Quantum theory	162	(15)
Quantum theory as an indication of a new order in physics	177	(41)
Part B: Implicate and explicate order in physical law	177	(1)
Introduction	177	(5)
Undivided wholeness -- the lens and the hologram	182	(4)
Implicate and explicate order	186	(4)
The holomovement and its aspects	190	(7)
Law in the holomovement	197	(21)
Appendix: implicate and explicate order in physical law	199	(19)
The enfolding-unfolding universe and consciousness	218	(55)
Introduction	218	(1)
Resume, contrasting mechanistic order in physics with implicate order	219	(8)
The implicate order and the general structure of matter	227	(9)
Quantum theory as an indication of a multidimensional implicate order	236	(4)
Cosmology and the implicate order	240	(5)
The implicate order, life and the force of overall necessity	245	(3)
Consciousness and the implicate order	248	(14)
Matter, consciousness and their common ground	262	(11)
Notes	273	(8)
Index	281