Understanding The Nature Of Reality And Consciousness: Bohm’s Philosophica Project. Paavo Pylkkänen

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July 18, 2021 – David Bohm was concerned with providing a description of reality—at the quantum level, and more generally, a unified description of matter, life, and consciousness, all adding up to a general concept of reality or a metaphysical theory. Such synthetic ontological projects were not popular in much of 20thcentury philosophy and thus Bohm’s philosophical work has been often ignored by professional philosophers. However, it is important to realize that although he was clearly more concerned with describing a mind-independent reality than many other 20th-century physicists or philosophers, this concern did not mean that he ignored the role…