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

Did it ever occur to you that human thought may be the cause of most of the challenges we face in the world today? Some problems are the result of natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, droughts and cyclones. Most, however, are caused by people, and the way they behave towards one another and the environment. The problems of crime, wars, substance abuse, deforestation, pollution, depletion of the ozone layer and so on, all arise from the way people think, feel and act.