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THOUGHT AS A SYSTEM

In Thought as a System, best‐selling author David Bohm takes as his

subject the role of thought and knowledge at every level of human

affairs, from our private reflections on personal identity to our collective

efforts to fashion a tolerable civilization.

Elaborating upon principles of the relationship between mind and

matter first put forward in Wholeness and the Implicate Order, Professor

Bohm rejects the notion that our thinking processes neutrally report on

what is ʹout thereʹ in an objective world. He explores the manner in

which thought actively participates in forming our perceptions, our

sense of meaning and our daily actions. He suggests that collective

thought and knowledge have become so automated that we are in large

part controlled by them, with a subsequent loss of authenticity, freedom

and order. In conversations with fifty seminar participants in Ojai,

California, David Bohm offers a radical perspective on an underlying

source of human conflict, and inquires into the possibility of individual

and collective transformation. The late David Bohm was Emeritus

Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. He was the author

of many articles and books including Causality and Chance in Modern

Physics, Wholeness and the Implicate Order and The Undivided Universe

(with Basil Hiley).

THOUGHT AS A

SYSTEM

David Bohm

This is a transcription of a seminar held in Ojai, California from 31

November to 2 December 1990. It has been edited by Professor Bohm.

ISBN 0‐203‐26616‐1 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0‐415‐11980‐4 (hbk)

ISBN 0‐415‐11030‐0 (pbk)

David Bohm died in 1992.

This book is dedicated to his memory.

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