Wholeness and the Implicate Order

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ISBN: 9780415289795 | 0415289793
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Copyright: 11/15/2002

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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.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Fragmentation and wholeness

(33)

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

(9)

The rheomode -- an experiment with language and thought

(27)

Introduction

(2)

An inquiry into our language

(5)

The form of the rheomode

(12)

Truth and fact in the rheomode

(6)

The rheomode and its implications for our overall world view

(2)

Reality and knowledge considered as process

(22)

Introduction

(2)

Thought and intelligence

(5)

The thing and the thought

(3)

Thought and non-thought

(8)

The field of knowledge, considered as process

(4)

Hidden variables in the quantum theory

(58)

Main features of the quantum theory

(1)

Limitations on determinism implied by the quantum theory

(1)

On the interpretation of indeterminism in the quantum theory

(2)

Arguments in favour of the interpretation of quantum-mechanical indeterminism as irreducible lawlessness

(5)

Bohr's resolution of the paradox of Einstein, Rosen and Podolsky -- the indivisibility of all material processes

(4)

Preliminary interpretation of quantum theory in terms of hidden variables

(5)

Criticism 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 experiments 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

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