Science, Order, and Creativity: A Dramatic New Look at the Creative Roots of Science and Life

I am an artist. This book was very challenging for me. The first couple of chapters talk about the hierarchical mind set of the scientific community. It's a bit of a slog but once you get past the critique, the book becomes very rewarding. The discussion of the way things are ordered and perceived is amazing! The authors go into clear and detailed discussions about the two camps of quantum theory and their positions. There are mathematical, philosophical, theoretical and allegorical discussions throughout. There are discussions about the Fourier number that musicians will be familiar with and the discussion of the madelbrot set and fractals is the best explanation I've ever read. indeed the whole book answers many questions that a lay person might have about what the specifics of discourse are in the current scientifi community. This book will reorder your perception of the world!

This book made me happy when I read it, definitely a guilty pleasure.

Some amazing scientific paradoxes and phenomena. Seems to beat around the bush by stating the same thing iv different ways.Must be read with other books on the subject to broaden the concepts it tries to analyse.

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This book is written in a clear and straightforward way, but I found it challenging and it took me a while to finish, mainly because many of the ideas Bohm and Peat advance are unorthodox and subtle. In other words, this is a book about creativity and the authors are themselves quite creative.You need to read the book in full to follow the lines of reasoning and engage with the many rich examples, but let me try to provide a summary of what I took to be the key ideas:____________Rigidly inflexibility in our thinking and interaction leads to fragmentation, maladaptiveness, and destructive tendencies in our individual and social lives, including in science. This inflexibility is perpetuated by tendencies to specialize (thus ignoring wider contexts), denial of the existence of problems, ignoring implicit assumptions, ignoring and downplaying important questions, holding out unwarranted hope for failing paradigms, selective use of evidence, and forcefully imposing inaccurate ideas (reinforced by social consensus).Creativity is a proper means to overcome inflexibility and its consequences, and is a natural need of humans and a natural expression of the universe. Creativity can be achieved through a variety of approaches: free and open-ended play of the mind, willingness to ask questions and challenge assumptions, use of metaphors, avoidance of inflexible reification of categories, working with a simultaneous plurality of hypotheses and allowing them to dynamically interact and evolve, sincere and respectful dialogue, giving ideas and theories gestation time before judging them, interdisciplinary coordination, interpreting theories (ascribing meaning to them) within broader contexts, sensitivity to the artistic (not just aesthetic) aspects of theories, appreciation of different levels of order and unfolding of extrinsic order from "hidden" generative and implicate orders, and engagement with other cultures and subcultures. To be effective, creativity must also be sustained, rather than intermittent or limited to paradigm shifts, and creativity must be applied to the whole of life, not just specialized areas such as the arts and sciences.____________I find the ideas advanced in this book to be very sensible, and I think the need to adopt a creative attitude and approach is even more pressing today than when this book was written more than two decades ago. I therefore highly recommend this book to anyone who senses the need for genuine creativity in science as well as the rest of personal and social life. David Bohm was highly accomplished as both a scientist and a philosopher, and was surely one of the great thinkers of the 20th century, so his books are not to be missed (no offense to Peat, but it's hard not to be overshadowed by Bohm).

David Bohm ignores the "usual" approaches to the investigation of fundamental questions in science, in fact in human life in general, and always provides a fresh and creative perspective. In this book he looks at the idea of order in the universe and the mind as well as the basis of creativity in human thought. Instead of assuming that order has already been understood as it is often portrayed in the popular science press he unveils the ideas of degree and levels of order and sidesteps the seemingly antagonistic concepts of order and disorder (the approach used by a mind whose thinking is habitualised by anaytical thinking of the world into separate and distinct pieces). He avoids this routine type of thinking and draws forth fascinating concepts giving a basis for a new science of order and a whole new way of "seeing" the creative mind. It is unfortunate that Bohm's thinking is generally ignored by mainstream scientists who could gain astonishing insight from such new ideas about creativity, the mind and order. As the new science of chaos has shown it is possible to engender a whole new science using a fresh approach, Bohm once again demonstrates this ability whole heartedly.

Amazing book. David Bohm was definitely a man for our times. His thinking is revolutionary and incredibly relevant given the difficulties we currently face as a human race. Highly recommend.

As Einstein proposed we can solve today's world challenges with the same level of consciousness that they were created with, so this book is for those who seek possibilities

Arrivato come preventivato, nuovo, era quello che cercavo

Bohm's work is of the highest importance because it leads us away from myopic science to wards a world in which science and spirituality meet and dialogue.