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David Joseph Bohm FRS (/boʊm/; December 20, 1917 – October 27, 1992) was an American scientist who has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century and who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and the philosophy of mind.

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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.

Against, Incoherence, Results, Struggle, Thinking, Trying

Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls it. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.

Actually, Awareness, Giving, Info, Running, Thought

If we can be cheered up by positive images we can be depressed by negative ones. As long as we accept images as realities we are in that trap, because you can't control the images.

Cheered, Depressed, Long, Mind, Negative, Reality

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.

Actual, Attention, Movement, Process, Reality, Thinking

We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent "elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems are merely particular contingent forms and arrangements of these parts. Rather, we say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality, and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular and contingent forms within this whole.

Independent, Notion, Reality, Systems, Usual

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement. That is to say, one can feel a sense of flow in the stream of consciousness not dissimilar to the sense of flow in the movement of matter in general. May not thought itself thus be a part of reality as a whole? But then, what could it mean for one part of reality to 'know' another, and to what extent would this be possible?

Attention, Mean, Reality, Say, Shows, Thinking

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.

Based, Common, Development, Mind

Ultimately, the entire universe. . . has to be understood as a single undivided whole.

Entire, Understood, Universe, Whole

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Creating, Division, Naturally, Saying, Thought

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.

Attention, Content, Engaged, Engagement, Process

To change your reality you have to change your inner thoughts.

Change, Inner, Learning, Reality, Teaching, Thoughts

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.

Commitment, Derived, Essentials, Kind, Reality, Wholeness

Ultimately, all moments are really one, therefore now is an eternity.

Eternity, Moments, Ultimately

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.

Fertile, Harmonious, Ideas, Mind, Theoretical, Thinking

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.

Communication, Decades, Network, Past, Travel, Woven

The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories, since it does not follow from the quantum theory as such, but rather from the assumption of the unlimited validity of certain of its features, an assumption that can in no way ever be subjected to experimental proof.

Absolute, Indeterminacy, Principles, Science, Theories, Way

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.

Clue, Men, Science, Sense, Universe

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

Believe, Care, Nonsense, Perhaps, Sense

The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant (so that to try to assert the truth or falsity of an irrelevant statement is a form of confusion).

Assert, Irrelevance, Science, Statement, Truth

Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it.

Certainty, Consciousness, Matter, Vacuums

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