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In Science, Order and Creativity, David Bohm and F. David Peat argue that science has lost its way in recent years and needs to go beyond a narrow and fragmented view of nature and embrace a wider holistic view that restores the importance of creativity and communication for all humanity - not just scientists. The result of a close collaboration by one of the 20th century's greatest physicists and thinkers, David Bohm, with leading science writer F. David Peat, provides a rare combination of profound reflection and clear exposition that can be appreciated by anyone concerned with science and its importance in our lives. This new edition includes a new preface and an extended additional chapter by Peat which draws upon further discussions with David Bohm before the latter's death in 1992. A fascinating diagnosis and considered proposal for a cure for science's ills, it is also very accessible entry point to the work of David Bohm. Bohm and Peat contend that science has lost its bearings in the last century in favour of a narrow, abstracted, fragmented approach to nature and reality. Tracing the history of science, Bohm and Peat offer intriguing new insights into how scientific theories come into being, how to eliminate blocks of creativity and how science can lead to a deeper understanding of society, the human condition and the human mind itself.
In this classic, David Bohm was the first to offer us his causal
interpretation of the quantum theory. Causality and Chance in
Modern Physics continues to make possible further insight into the
meaning of the quantum theory and to suggest ways of extending the
theory into new directions.
The Limits of Thought is a series of penetrating dialogues between the great spiritual leader, J. Krishnamurti and the renowned physicist, David Bohm. The starting point of their engaging exchange is the question: If truth is something different than reality, then what place has action in daily life in relation to truth and reality? We see Bohm and Krishnamurti explore the nature of consciousness and the condition of humanity. These enlightening dialogues address issues of truth, desire awareness, tradition, and love. Limits of Thought is an important book by two very respected and important thinkers. Anyone interested to see how Krishnamurti and Bohm probe some of the most essential questions of our very existence will be drawn to this great work.
In the The Undivided Universe, David Bohn and Basil Hiley present a radically different approach to quantum theory. They develop an interpretation of quantum mechanics which gives a clear, intuitive understanding of its meaning and in which there is a coherent notion of the reality of the universe without assuming a fundamental role for the human observer. With the aid of new concepts such as active information together with non-locality, they provide a comprehensive account of all the basic features of quantum mechanics, including the relativistic domain and quantum field theory. It is shown that, with the new approach, paradoxical or unsatisfactory features associated with the standard approaches, such as the wave-particle duality and the collapse of the wave function, do not arise. Finally, the authors make new suggestions and indicate some areas in which one may expect quantum theory to break down in a way that will allow for a test. The Undivided Universe is an important book especially because it provides a different overall world view which is neither mechanistic nor reductionist. This view will ultimately have radical implications not only in physics but also in our general approach to all areas of life.
In this classic, David Bohm was the first to offer us his causal
interpretation of the quantum theory. Causality and Chance in
Modern Physics continues to make possible further insight into the
meaning of the quantum theory and to suggest ways of extending the
theory into new directions.
First published in 1987. In Unfolding Meaning, the author, one of
the most provocative and original thinkers of our time, argues that
there are other ways of thinking to bring about a different, more
harmonious reality. Our fragmented, mechanistic notion of order
derives from the modem conception that our earth is only part, not
- as it was with the Greeks - the centre, of the immense universe
of material bodies. The implications of this idea permeate modem
science and technology today and also our general attitude to life.
"It was sheer chance that I encountered David Bohm's writing in
1958 ... I knew nothing about him. What struck me about his work
and prompted my initial letter was his underlying effort to seek
for some larger sense of reality, which seemed a very humanized
search." - Charles Biederman, from the foreword of the book
This book marks the beginning of a four thousand page
correspondence between Charles Biederman, founder of Constructivism
in the 1930s, and David Bohm the prestigious physicist known for
his interpretation of quantum theory. Available for the first time,
we are given a rare opportunity to read through and engage in a
remarkable transatlantic, intellectual discussion on art and
science, creativity and theory.
David Bohm was one of the foremost scientific thinkers and philosophers of our time. Although deeply influenced by Einstein, he was also, more unusually for a scientist, inspired by mysticism. Indeed, in the 1970s and 1980s he made contact with both J. Krishnamurti and the Dalai Lama whose teachings helped shape his work. In both science and philosophy, Bohm's main concern was with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular. In this classic work he develops a theory of quantum physics which treats the totality of existence as an unbroken whole. Writing clearly and without technical jargon, he makes complex ideas accessible to anyone interested in the nature of reality.
The Limits of Thought is a series of penetrating dialogues between
the great spiritual leader, J. Krishnamurti and the renowned
physicist, David Bohm.
The starting point of their engaging exchange is the question: If
truth is something different than reality, then what place has
action in daily life in relation to truth and reality? We see Bohm
and Krishnamurti explore the nature of consciousness and the
condition of humanity. These enlightening dialogues address issues
of truth, desire awareness, tradition, and love.
Limits of Thought is an important book by two very respected and
important thinkers. Anyone interested to see how Krishnamurti and
Bohm probe some of the most essential questions of our very
existence will be drawn to this great work.
"It was sheer chance that I encountered David Bohm's writing in
1958 ... I knew nothing about him. What struck me about his work
and prompted my initial letter was his underlying effort to seek
for some larger sense of reality, which seemed a very humanized
search." - Charles Biederman, from the foreword of the book
This book marks the beginning of a four thousand page
correspondence between Charles Biederman, founder of Constructivism
in the 1930s, and David Bohm the prestigious physicist known for
his interpretation of quantum theory. Available for the first time,
we are given a rare opportunity to read through and engage in a
remarkable transatlantic, intellectual discussion on art and
science, creativity and theory.
The question of how we communicate is at the heart of On Dialogue. This revised and expanded edition is the most comprehensive documentation to date of best-selling author David Bohm's dialogical world view. Whilst the exercise of dialogue is as old as civilization itself, in recent times a profusion of practices, techniques and definitions has arisen around the term 'dialogue'. None of these approaches can claim to be the correct view, but it is possible to distinguish between them and to clarify the intention of each. To this end, the current edition of On Dialogue illuminates the underlying meaning, purpose and uniqueness of David Bohm's work in this field.
"The theory of relativity is not merely a scientific development of
great importance in its own right. It is even more significant as
the first stage of a radical change in our basic concepts, which
began in physics, and which is spreading into other fields of
science, and indeed, even into a great deal of thinking outside of
science."
The opening lines of "The Special Theory of Relativity" show us
David Bohm's unique ability to bridge the worlds of theoretical
physics and the conceptual issues that underly science that gives
his writing meaning far beyond the scientific community.
Based on his famous final year undergraduate lectures on
theoretical physics at Birkbeck College, Bohm presents the theory
of relativity as a unified whole, making clear the reasons which
led to its adoption, and explaining its basic meaning. With clarity
and grace, he also reveals the limited truth of some of the "common
sense" assumptions which make it difficult for us to appreciate its
full implications.
In "The Undivided Universe", David Bohm, one of the foremost
scientific thinkers of the day and one of the most distinguished
physicists of his generation presents a totally new approach to
quantum theory. With Basil Hiley, his co-author, an interpretation
of quantum theory is developed which gives a clear intuitive
understanding of its meaning and in which there is a coherent
notion of the reality of the universe without assuming a
fundamental role for the human observer. With the aid of new
concepts such as active information and non-locality they provide a
comprehensive account of all the basic features of quantum theory,
including the relativistic domain and quantum field theory. They
contrast the new approach with other commonly accepted
interpretations and show that paradoxical or unsatisfactory
features of the other interpretations, such as the wave-particle
duality, do not arise. Finally, on the basis of the new
interpretation the authors make suggestions that go beyond current
quantum theory and they indicate areas in which quantum theory may
be expected to break down in a way that will allow for a test. This
book should be of interest to postgraduates and academics of phi
One of the foremost scientists and thinkers of our time, David Bohm
worked alongside Oppenheimer and Einstein. In Science, Order and
Creativity he and physicist F. David Peat propose a return to
greater creativity and communication in the sciences. They ask for
a renewed emphasis on ideas rather than formulae, on the whole
rather than fragments, and on meaning rather than mere mechanics.
Tracing the history of science from Aristotle to Einstein, from the
Pythagorean theorem to quantum mechanics, the authors offer
intriguing new insights into how scientific theories come into
being, how to eliminate blocks to creativity and how science can
lead to a deeper understanding of society, the human condition and
the human mind itself. Science, Order and Creativity looks to the
future of science with elegance, hope and enthusiasm.
This advanced undergraduate-level text provides a formulation of the quantum theory in terms of qualitative and imaginative concepts outside classical theory. A broad range of specific applications follows, worked out in considerable mathematical detail. Also included: an examination of the relationship between quantum and classical concepts. Preface. Index.
In these inspiring lectures David Bohm explores Albert Einstein's
celebrated Theory of Relativity that transformed forever the way we
think about time and space. Yet for Bohm the implications of the
theory were far more revolutionary both in scope and impact even
than this. Stepping back from dense theoretical and scientific
detail in this eye-opening work, Bohm describes how the notion of
relativity strikes at the heart of our very conception of the
universe, regardless of whether we are physicists or philosophers.
First published in 1987. In Unfolding Meaning, the author, one of
the most provocative and original thinkers of our time, argues that
there are other ways of thinking to bring about a different, more
harmonious reality. Our fragmented, mechanistic notion of order
derives from the modem conception that our earth is only part, not
- as it was with the Greeks - the centre, of the immense universe
of material bodies. The implications of this idea permeate modem
science and technology today and also our general attitude to life.
David Bohm is considered one of the best physicists of all time. He
also had a deep interest in human communication and creativity.
Influential in both management and communication theory in what is
known 'Bohm Dialogue', On Dialogue is both inspiring and
pioneering. Bohm considers the origin and very meaning of dialogue,
reflecting on what gets in the way of "true dialogue". He argues
that dialogue, as a radical form of exploration that allows
different views to be presented, leads us beyond the impasse of
conflict and argument to the forming of new views. With a new
foreword by Dean Rickles.
Creativity is fundamental to human experience. In On Creativity
David Bohm, the world-renowned scientist, investigates the
phenomenon from all sides: not only the creativity of invention and
of imagination but also that of perception and of discovery. This
is a remarkable and life-affirming book by one of the most
far-sighted thinkers of modern times.
Author Biography: David Bohm, one of the key physicists of our time, was Professor of Theoretical Physics at Birkbeck College, University of London. David Peat is the author of many books dealing with science, philosophy, psychology, art and society.
On Dialogue is the most comprehensive documentation to date of
best-selling author David Bohm's dialogical world view. Bohm
explores the purpose, methods and meanings of the multi-faceted
process he referred to simply as "dialogue," suggesting that
dialogue offers the possibility of an entirely new order of
communication and relationship with ourselves, our fellows, and the
world around us. Bohm's basic message is: if your views are
correct, they do not need an aggressive defense; if they are
incorrect they do not deserve it and realizing that is the
beginning of dialogue. His book offers tools that facilitate a true
exchange of ideas between people.
One of the foremost scientists and thinkers of our time, David
Bohm worked alongside Oppenheimer and Einstein. In Science, Order
and Creativity he and physicist F. David Peat propose a return to
greater creativity and communication in the sciences. They ask for
a renewed emphasis on ideas rather than formulae, on the whole
rather than fragments, and on meaning rather than mere mechanics.
Tracing the history of science from Aristotle to Einstein, from the
Pythagorean theorem to quantum mechanics, the authors offer
intriguing new insights into how scientific theories come into
being, how to eliminate blocks to creativity and how science can
lead to a deeper understanding of society, the human condition and
the human mind itself. Science, Order and Creativity looks to the
future of science with elegance, hope and enthusiasm.
David Bohm was one of the foremost scientific thinkers and philosophers of our time. Although deeply influenced by Einstein, he was also, more unusually for a scientist, inspired by mysticism. Indeed, in the 1970s and 1980s he made contact with both J. Krishnamurti and the Dalai Lama whose teachings helped shape his work. In both science and philosophy, Bohm's main concern was with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular. In this classic work he develops a theory of quantum physics which treats the totality of existence as an unbroken whole. Writing clearly and without technical jargon, he makes complex ideas accessible to anyone interested in the nature of reality.
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