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American quantum physicist (20 December 1917 – 27 October 1992) who made significant contributions in the fields of theoretical physics and neuropsychology
While still a university student, Bohm’s outstanding final thesis was snatched away from him by the government and used on the Manhattan Project for the atomic bomb. After the war, Bohm became an assistant professor at Princeton University, where he worked closely with Einstein.
In collaboration with neuroscientist Karl Pribram of Stanford University, he developed the holonomic model of the mind in which our brain moves through a holographic universe.
In his book Wholeness and Implicated Order, Bohm explains how an enfolded reality (implicated order) underlies the reality we experience (“unfolded” order). We live fragmented, divided, specialized, without understanding the global nature of things, denying ourselves the possibility of experiencing the totality of reality. The fact that we see ourselves as being separate from things, however, is an illusion. It may sound strange, but if we stop and think about it for a moment it’s perfectly logical. Everything is composed of atoms and quantum matter: us, the air we breathe, magnetism, electricity… everything. If everything is made up of the same thing, then why can’t communicate with it?
David Bohm’s wife recommended that he read a book by the Hindu philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti, and the physicist was left astounded by the amazing parallels he found between his ideas about quantum mechanics and Hindu philosophy. In the future, he would engage Krishnamurti in a great many conversations. From these talks, it became clear that the separation between science and ancient knowledge is yet another result of fragmentation. The two bodies of knowledge need to come to a better mutual understanding and ultimately reunite.anteriorsiguiente
