A WEEKEND OF DIALOGUE WITH DAVID BOHM in La Rippe, near Geneva, 1985
Extract from Session I on Scientific Worldviews Order and Fragmentation
If we wanted to suggest a new notion of order that was appropriate to wholeness rather than to mechanism - which divides things up and just puts them together externally and in a superficial relationship - what kind of notion of order would be suitable for wholes? That is our question. This question may go much further than physics. The ideas of order in physics have had a profound effect in many other fields. The whole mechanistic approach has affected every field including sociology and psychology and so on, and the particular ways of dealing with order in physics have had that effect.