> Of course, Bohm says, you can never truly plumb your own mind; any attempt to examine your thought changes it--just as the measurement of an electron alters its course. We cannot achieve final self-knowledge, Bohm seems to imply, any more we can achieve a final theory of physics.

I found Bohm through Krishnamurti, which is all I have to say about whatever bias I have on this subject. So, of course, I was nodding along as I read this article.

> Bohm hopes scientists will eventually move beyond mechanistic and even mathematical paradigms. “We have an assumption now that’s getting stronger and stronger that mathematics is the only way to deal with reality,” Bohm says. “Because it’s worked so well for a while, we’ve assumed that it has to be that way.”

Bohm's ideas on implicate order and his call to move past the mechanistic paradigm reminds me of E.F. Schumacher's critique on "materialistic scientism" and its limitations in the face of the unknown:

> Since the findings of science, on account of its methodical restriction and its systematic disregard of higher levels, never contain any evidence of the existence of such levels, the process is self-reinforcing: faith, instead of being taken as a guide leading the intellect to an understanding of the higher levels, is seen as opposing and rejecting the intellect and is therefore itself rejected.

I appreciate that Bohm opened a door for me into a subject which I was not intrinsically interested in, and I'm looking forward to what comes out of this conversation in the years ahead.