TSD 7045 - The Legacy of David Bohm

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California Institute of Integral Studies

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The course will explore the life and work of the physicist and philosopher David Bohm, who interacted not only with Oppenheimer and Einstein but also with J. Krishnamurti and the Dalai Lama. Bohm had argued that because "we are suspended in language," there is a limit to the way wecan understand the quantum world. Bohm felt that we could approach the quantum world through a new form of language-the strongly verbbased "rheomode." In his later discussion with Blackfoot people, he discovered that their worldview was very close to the process-based viewsof quantum theory and their language was also richly verb based. (We shall discuss something of this world.) Bohm was convinced that the future of physics could not be resolved through some new theory alone but rather that a radically new order to physics was required-something as radical as the Copernican revolution that replaced Earth as the center of the universe. He came to see the everyday world of well-defined objects in interaction as an "explicate order," one that is in a constant process of unfolding and enfolding out of a much deeper level-th"implicate order." While mind and matter remain distinct in the explicate order, they become two sides of the one reality in the implicate order.In addition, Bohm introduced the notion of "active information"-an electron is able to "read" the active information about its surroundings in this sense has proto mind.

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.ciis.edu

Phone Number:

(415) 575-6100

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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