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Thought As a System : Second Edition by Bohm D Staff, David Bohm, David Bohm, Chris Jenks is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Thought As a System : Second Edition about?

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 out there 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 Causal

Who reads Thought As a System : Second Edition?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Bohm D Staff, David Bohm, David Bohm, Chris Jenks
Publisher
Routledge
Published
1994
Language
EN
ISBN
9780203266168
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Philosophy, Religion
Rating
4.19 / 5 (152 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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