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Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

- David Bohm
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During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates.

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.

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Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.