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David Bohm
David Bohm
American Scientist
Born: Dec 20, 1917
Died: Oct 27, 1992
Mind People Problems Thinking Thought Which
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But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us. David Bohm
You Thought Running Runs Gives However False Controls Whereas Decide Which Us Who Each Each One Actually
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. David Bohm
Culture Revolution Others Our Those Distortion Would Able Constitute Compulsive Share Self-Deception Freely Suppose Without Real Impose Were Conform Urge Meanings View
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 Technology Communication World Past Few Other Air Air Travel TV Woven Network Instant Part Contact Puts Almost Parts Decades Modern Modern Technology Which Radio Satellites Each
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. David Bohm
Man Sense Universe Some Microcosm Clue Therefore
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
Change People Pool Constant Rather Primarily Development Participating Longer Said Nor Opposition Common Interacting Which Capable Meaning
What is the source of all this trouble? I'm saying that the source is basically in thought. Many people would think that such a statement is crazy, because thought is the one thing we have with which to solve our problems. That's part of our tradition. David Bohm
Saying Crazy People Problems Thought Trouble Think Our Statement Would One Thing Solve Part Because Tradition Source The One Thing Which Many Thing Basically
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
Relativity Defined Well Quantum Quantum Mechanics Continuous Movement While Mechanics
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
Reality Older Kind Some Unbroken Prevails Sees Features Recovers Abstract Drops Thus New Most New Kind Commitments Essential Which Forms Theories Derived Theory Wholeness Deeper Basic Needed
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 Sense Society Corporation System Some Only Also Department Any Meaning Body Separately Organized Function
And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence. David Bohm
Thought Thinking Way Those Unpleasant Struggles Results Call Trying Sustained While Against Avoid Keeping
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
People Word Action Nowadays Way Mutual Mutually Something Only Parts Existence Interdependent Commonly Meaning Means Use Whose
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
Logical Language Mind Feelings State Intuitively Proper Only Poetic Generally Overall Terms Also Known Operation Mathematical Order Formal Etc Usage Requires Grasp Each Images Suggestion
Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times. David Bohm
People Thought Feelings Society State Back System Ancient Ancient Times Evolved Similarly Only Between Passing Times Process Which Forth Body Whole
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
Good Technology Destruction Power Advancing Greater Wonder Begins Going Human Happen Either Race Human Race Keeps
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
Mind Society Thinking Harmonious Way Possible Kind Only Could Generally New Overall Ideas Make Source Fertile Stable Human Orderly Which Turn Human Mind Theoretical Help Function Needed
We havent 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. David Bohm
Thoughts Thought Only Attention Content Process Much Much Attention Really Engaged Paid

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