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SUMMARY:Entering Bohm's Holoflux
DESCRIPTION:Entering Bohm’s Holoflux \n\n\n\nFour Sundays in October  – 4\, 11\, 18\, 25  – 202010:00 am PST\, 7:00 pm CEST \n\n\n\nEach Sunday session will be followed by a one-hour Wednesday discussion group11:00 am PST\, 8:00 pm CEST. \n\n\n\nAn experiential\, experimental approach to David Bohm’s holoflux: the flowing movement of all that is\, the ground of our being\, the mysterious domain in which mind\, matter\, and meaning are an organic whole. \n\n\n\nBohm proposed that human beings hold the potential to manifest the holoflux as living reality. What access points might we already have to this potential? What aspects of our personal and cultural lives thwart this access? Through presentation and extensive participant interaction\, these questions will guide our inquiry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday October 4:  The Enfolding/Unfolding HumanOur contemporary identity—the self-image—follows a pattern of ‘enfolding’ and ‘unfolding’ that we find articulated throughout Bohm’s cosmos. But this self-image filters out the deep\, living currents of the holoflux\, in favour of enfolding recycled thought patterns\, values\, and images. Bohm often referred to the bright lights of Las Vegas\, which blot out the light of the stars: ‘When you turn off the electric lights\, then the universe comes through.’ Can we move through this analogy\, and into the living cosmos it points to? This holds the key to what Bohm referred to as true individuality—the undivided human. \n\n\n\nSunday October 11: Thought as a System & the Pain BodyWe will examine the manner in which awareness\, thinking\, and feeling deteriorate into ‘thoughting’ and ‘felting.’ This process permeates our individual lives\, as well as collective global culture\, and is at the root of reflexive defensiveness and isolation. The result is what has been called the ‘pain body\,’ a uniquely apt term for our modern condition. We will inquire into the various manifestations of the pain body\, and how this blockage to the deep currents of the holoflux might be undone. We will explore how interoception—our interpretation of the sensations within our bodies—can help us understand the grip and extent of the thoughting/felting vortex. \n\n\n\nSunday October 18: Liberating the Explicate Order & and the Prospect of DialogueIf we can release somewhat the impulses of thoughting\, felting\, and the pain body\, we can begin to sense untapped aspects of consciousness that are innately in motion\, rather than fixed and rigid. As inner rigidities dissolve\, this is reflected in the ‘outer’ world. It is this affinity for movement that allows us to sense and engage in a new way with the explicate order—the world of cars\, rivers\, people\, stars. Such ‘liberating’ of the explicate order is central to deep engagement in dialogue—when multiple participants allow the flux and flow of assumptions and presuppositions\, we find the seeds of a new level of participatory consciousness. \n\n\n\nSunday October 25: Flux & TransformationFor 40\,000 years or more\, indigenous people have been attuned to what David Bohm referred to as the holoflux\, and its attendant implicate orders. Our guest Leroy Little Bear (Blackfoot) will discuss how these perceptions relate to the fixities and rigidities of the modern world. Can our categories of ‘reality’ become fluid? More deeply\, can fluid\, evolving categories—our framings of reality—help us align with the movements of the holoflux? Is such activity itself the expression of the holoflux\, manifesting in human beings? Are we willing to entertain the prospect of perpetual transformations? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol\, Bohm collaborator\, editor\, educator \n\n\n\nLee Nichol is the editor of David Bohm’s On Dialogue; On Creativity; and The Essential David Bohm. From 1980-1992 he collaborated with Bohm on various aspects of dialogue\, consciousness\, and education. \n\n\n\nHe has been on the faculty of the Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, NC; of the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, CA; of the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, CA; and of Denver University in Denver\, CO.
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SUMMARY:Nonlocality\, Interconnectedness\, and the Quantum Observer
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNonlocality\, Interconnectedness\, and the Quantum Observer \n\n\n\nwith Jan Walleczek  \n\n\n\nAugust 239:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  |  6:00pm CEST  for a 2-hour live session  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Jan Walleczek   Director of Phenoscience Laboratories \n\n\n\nJan Walleczek\, Director of Phenoscience Laboratories\, Berlin\, Germany\, and Director of the Fetzer Franklin Fund of the John E. Fetzer Memorial Trust\, USA. Previously\, he was Director of the Bioelectromagnetics Laboratory at Stanford University Medical School\, USA. Jan Walleczek was a doctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics\, Berlin\, and post-doctoral fellow at the Research Medicine and Radiation Biophysics Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory\, University of California at Berkeley. His scientific publications cover the fields of biology\, chemistry\, engineering\, and physics. His recent work concerns the foundations of quantum mechanics and applications to living systems of concepts such as quantum coherence\, emergent dynamics\, and the flow of information\, a long-standing interest that he summarized as an edited volume for Cambridge University Press titled ‘Self-organized Biological Dynamics and Nonlinear Control.’ In 2019\, he co-edited the book titled Emergent Quantum Mechanics—David Bohm Centennial Perspectives for MDPI Press. In addition to metascience and advanced methodology\, his professional interests include the philosophy and foundations of science. \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/nonlocality-interconnectedness-and-the-quantum-observer/
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Known Dimension
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwith David Schrum  \n\n\n\nAugust 22 at 9:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  |  6:00pm CEST  for a 2-hour live session  \n\n\n\nDavid Bohm spoke of an implicate order\, a subtle\, hidden order that lies within mind and matter. While we will consider both the physical and mental dimensions of this order\, our focus will be greatly on our inner human dimension. \n\n\n\nIn our time together\, we will challenge ourselves to open an exploration into these inner depths and to uncover the implicate within ourselves. We will go into the question of what sort of inner observation will bring us into a deep participation of our own in this subtle realm and\, thus\, to first-hand appreciation and understanding of this hidden order. This is a journey of exploration together that begins with our surface consciousness and that offers an opening to that which lies beyond the known dimension. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid C. Schrum\, PhD. Quantum theorist \n\n\n\nDavid Schrum received his PhD in quantum theory from Queen’s University\, Canada (1971)\, after which he spent two years in post-doctoral studies with David Bohm at Birkbeck College\, London. At Birkbeck\, Schrum entered the world of Bohm’s creative and subtle philosophical approaches to physics\, and of his enquiry into the structure of consciousness and what may lie beyond. He was also introduced to his professor’s interest in the philosopher J. Krishnamurti. David Schrum continues engagement in these areas. \n\n\n\nFrom 1974 until retirement he taught at Cambrian College\, Sudbury\, Canada. Present areas of focus are relativistic quantum theory derived from a new application of the quantum principle\, and exploration and development of David Bohm dialogue as a process of shared enquiry into mind. \n\n\n\nHe is a board member of the Pari Center\, Italy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here\n\n\n\nAll sessions will last for approximately 2 hours\, and will be held over zoom.us. The session structure may vary from speaker to speaker\, but in general participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of the presenter and in some cases there will be breakaway discussion groups. \n\n\n\nEach session will be hosted by a member of the Pari Center Team\, to ensure that the call is running smoothly and assist anyone experiencing technical problems. \n\n\n\nAll sessions will be recorded for archival purposes. The recordings will not include the possible breakout-room discussions\, but only the speaker’s presentation\, follow-up discussions and Q&A. If a participant does not feel comfortable being recorded\, we invite that participant to turn off their video and audio throughout the session. These recordings are available to anyone who has purchased a ticket for an attended session\, or for a session they have paid for but were unable to attend. If a participant would like to access to the recording\, please email us at: eleanor@paricenter.com
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-the-known-dimension/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/POs-PghoovY?si=zsNRyE2yW3RCFQf3\n\n\n\n\n\nBeyond Dialogue \n\n\n\nwith Lee Nichol  \n\n\n\nAugust 169:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour live session \n\n\n\nOver the years that David Bohm presented his vision of dialogue\, he pointed to three aspects of the human being—the individual\, the collective\, and the cosmic. While the individual and collective aspects have been much studied and practiced\, the cosmic aspect has received little attention. In this presentation we will open up what this cosmic aspect might mean\, and\, of equal importance\, what is involved in conducting such an investigation. The first hour will consist of laying out the terrain involved. The second hour will be discussion and question and answer. There will be no attempt to conduct a dialogue. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol\, Bohm collaborator\, editor\, educator \n\n\n\nLee Nichol is the editor of David Bohm’s On Dialogue; On Creativity; and The Essential David Bohm. From 1980-1992 he collaborated with Bohm on various aspects of dialogue\, consciousness\, and education. \n\n\n\nHe has been on the faculty of the Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, NC; of the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, CA; of the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, CA; and of Denver University in Denver\, CO. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-dialogue/
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SUMMARY:Tracing the Story of David Bohm and Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTracing the Story of David Bohm and Dialogue \n\n\n\nwith Beth Macy  \n\n\n\nAugust 159:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  |  6:00pm CEST  for a 2-hour live session  \n\n\n\nHow is it that one of the world’s most gifted and innovative theoretical physicists would stray from his primary calling of uncovering the secrets of the universe?  What so captivated his interest that\, with that same intense creativity brought to his science\, he would divert his exploration to uncovering the basis of human thought and the roots of social discord?  Using David Bohm’s own words and those of his associates\, we will plumb these queries by tracing the stories of his experience that called him to this deep practice of dialogue. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Macy\, PhD\, organizational consultant\, Bohmian dialogue practitioner \n\n\n\nThe common thread weaving through Beth’s career has been change\, having been a manager\, leader\, consultant or participant in organizations experiencing difficult issues:  organizations from small to large\, private to public\, non-profit to profit\, health care to oil and gas\, local to global. David Bohm’s dialogue has been core to her research\, writing\, consulting and teaching for nearly three decades. Living in the USA (Texas) she is completing a book on the ideas and individuals who influenced Bohm’s methodology of dialogue. \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/tracing-the-story-of-david-bohm-and-dialogue/
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SUMMARY:Understanding Quantum Reality and Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnderstanding Quantum Reality and Consciousness \n\n\n\nwith Paavo Pylkkänen  \n\n\n\nAugust 99:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  |  6:00pm CEST  for a 2-hour live session \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaavo Pylkkänen\, PhD\, Philosopher of Mind\, Helsinki University\, Finland \n\n\n\nPaavo is Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy and Director of the Bachelor’s Program in Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. He is also Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy (currently on leave) at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy\, University of Skövde\, where he initiated a Consciousness Studies Program. \n\n\n\nHis main research areas are philosophy of mind\, philosophy of physics and their intersection. The central problem in philosophy of mind is how to understand the place of mind—and especially conscious experience—in the physical world. Pylkkänen has explored whether this problem can be approached in a new way in the framework of the new holistic and dynamic worldview that is emerging from quantum theory and relativity. He has in particular been inspired by the physicists David Bohm and Basil Hiley’s interpretation of quantum theory and has collaborated with both of them. \n\n\n\nIn his 2007 book Mind\, Matter and the Implicate Order (Springer) he proposed that Bohmian notions such as active information and implicate order provide new ways of approaching key problems in philosophy of mind\, such as mental causation and time consciousness. The overall aim of his research is to develop a scientific metaphysics. Paavo Pylkkänen has been a visiting researcher in Stanford University\, Oxford University\, London University\, Charles University Prague and Gothenburg University and is a member of the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT). \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/understanding-quantum-reality-and-consciousness/
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SUMMARY:Insight and Illusion in Bohmian Psychology
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInsight and Illusion in Bohmian Psychology \n\n\n\nwith David Moody  \n\n\n\nAugust 8 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session   \n\n\n\nDavid Bohm is known primarily for his work in physics and cosmology\, but his contributions to the field of psychology were equally profound and significant. His understanding of the nature and dynamic structure of consciousness\, and their relevance to the ordinary affairs of daily life\, had several sources. His views were shaped in part by his experience with members of the scientific community and his disillusionment with their independence of mind and objectivity. He also drew upon the work of Hegel and Piaget\, among others. The greatest influence upon his outlook on psychology\, however\, was the philosophy of J. Krishnamurti\, and the quarter-century of dialogue and collaboration between the two men. \n\n\n\nIn Bohm’s approach to psychology\, the role of thought occupies a central position in consciousness\, including our common misconceptions about thought and the illusions that thought generates. The remedy for these illusions is insight\, which represents a form of seeing or intelligence that transcends the limitations of thought. These views closely parallel those of Krishnamurti\, but Bohm expressed them with his own gift for language and colourful metaphors. In this presentation\, we will examine the basic elements of Bohmian psychology with special reference to the work of Krishnamurti and the nature and quality of the relationship between the two men. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Edmund Moody\, PhD author and educator \n\n\n\nDavid Edmund Moody\, PhD\, is the author of An Uncommon Collaboration:  David Bohm and J. Krishnamurti.  He worked closely with Bohm and Krishnamurti in his capacity as director of the Oak Grove School\, founded by Krishnamurti in Ojai\, California\, in 1975.  Moody’s relationship with the two men is described in his previous book\, The Unconditioned Mind:  J. Krishnamurti and the Oak Grove School. \n\n\n\nMoody is currently completing a biography of Krishnamurti that presents his philosophy in a new light.  Krishnamurti in America: New Perspectives on the Man and His Message is scheduled for publication in October 2019. \n\n\n\nMoody facilitated a series of seminars conducted by Bohm at Oak Grove School\, in which Bohm described his views on consciousness and the human condition.  He conducted several recorded dialogues with Bohm\, three of which are included as appendixes in An Uncommon Collaboration. \n\n\n\nHe took his PhD in education at UCLA in 1991.  His doctoral research investigated the logical structure of high school biology textbooks and their effects on student understanding of the theory of evolution.  Moody is the author of numerous articles in popular and professional journals on topics related to biology and science education\, including Gaia theory and the development of a curriculum based on the cultivation of insight. \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/insight-and-illusion-in-bohmian-psychology/
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SUMMARY:Recovering Coherency in Politics and Society through Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecovering Coherency in Politics and Society through Dialogue \n\n\n\nwith Glenn Parry  \n\n\n\nAugust 2 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session \n\n\n\nThe main reason we are divided in politics is not only polarization between parties\, or fragmentation within the parties\, but because of how we think. We tend to think in partial fragments\, not in contextual wholes. David Bohm was keenly aware of this. Bohm was also aware that this lack of coherency was not necessarily the case in Indigenous cultures that have a history of shared meaning and participatory consciousness. In the USA\, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy had a profound effect on the very idea to unite the states and also on the foundational values of liberty\, equality\, and natural rights enshrined in the US Constitution—and then on the unwritten rules of engagement that govern political protocols. The latter influence arguably was what prevented the country from lapsing into fascism\, at least until now. Sadly\, authoritarian governments are now on the rise across the globe. In honor of David Bohm’s far-reaching vision\, how do we begin to restore coherency in government and society? How do we make America and the world sacred again? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGlenn Aparicio Parry\, PhD\, of Basque\, Aragon Spanish\, and Jewish descent\, is the author of Original Politics: Making America Sacred Again (SelectBooks\, 2020) and Original Thinking: A Radical Revisioning of Time\, Humanity\, and Nature (North Atlantic Press\, 2015). Parry is an educator\, ecopsychologist\, and political philosopher whose passion is to reform thinking and education into a coherent\, cohesive whole. The founder and past president of the SEED Institute\, Parry is currently the president of the think tank: Circle for Original Thinking. Parry organized and participated in the groundbreaking Language of Spirit Conferences from 1999 – 2011 that brought together Native and Western scientists in dialogue\, moderated by Leroy Little Bear. He has appeared in several documentary films\, including Journey to Turtle Island\, a biographic piece exploring David Peat’s life and participation in the dialogue circles by Spanish filmmaker Miryam Servet. Parry is a  member of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Theosophical Society as part of a life-long interest in bridging the arts and sciences. \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/recovering-coherency-in-politics-and-society-through-dialogue/
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SUMMARY:Laozi and the Implicate Order: Wholeness in Daoism and Quantum Physics
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaozi and the Implicate Order: Wholeness in Daoism and Quantum Physics \n\n\n\nwith Shantena Augusto Sabbadini  \n\n\n\nJuly 26 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session   \n\n\n\nBohm’s notion of implicate order resonates with the Eastern notion of Dao. Dao is the invisible current that brings the ‘ten thousand things’ to manifestation\, but it is also described as the attractor that calls them back to return to their root\, to no-thingness\, to the unmanifest. And ultimately these two states\, the manifest\, the explicate\, that which can be named\, and the unmanifest\, the implicate\, that which has no name\, are one and the same. Holding them together in our awareness is\, Laozi tells us\, the ultimate secret\, the door of all mysteries. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Shantena Augusto Sabbadini\, quantum physicist and philosopher \n\n\n\nShantena graduated from the University of Milan in 1968 and was awarded his PhD in physics from the University of California in 1976. In Milan he researched the foundations of quantum physics\, laying the base for what is currently known as the decoherence interpretation of quantum physics. At the University of California\, he contributed to the theoretical work behind the first identification of a black hole\, the X-ray source Cygnus X-1. In the 1990s he was scientific consultant for the Eranos Foundation\, an East-West research center founded under the auspices of C.G. Jung in the 1930s. In that context he produced various translations and commentaries of Chinese classics in Italian and English\, including the Yijing and the trilogy of Daoist classics\, the Laozi\, the Zhuangzi and the Liezi. From 2002 onwards he collaborated with F. David Peat running the Pari Center for New Learning and in 2017 he succeeded his friend and colleague as director of the center. \n\n\n\nShantena leads workshops and courses on the philosophical implications of quantum physics\, on Daoism\, and on using the Yijing as a tool for introspection. His most recent book in English\, Pilgrimages to Emptiness: Rethinking Reality through Quantum Physics\, was published by Pari Publishing in 2017. \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/laozi-and-the-implicate-order-wholeness-in-daoism-and-quantum-physics/
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SUMMARY:How does the Classical World Emerge from the Implicate Order?
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow does the Classical World Emerge from the Implicate Order? \n\n\n\nwith Basil Hiley  \n\n\n\nJuly 25 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session  \n\n\n\nExperimental evidence clearly shows classical physics is wrong. Sure\, it works at the classical level\, but there is some deeper order necessary to understand the new physics. Nevertheless this deeper process must approximate to the macroscopic world we experience. David Bohm suggested that the algebraic quantum formalism should be understood in terms of the implicate order. For him this was the order that we directly perceive and from our experiences we abstract an array classical orders\, the explicate orders from which we construct the an order which allows us to find a way to survive. The deeper implicate order contains an array of what appears to be contradictory possible explicate orders. Why? We find classical rigidity is replaced by a new notion of dynamical rigid forms which gives rise to what is known as quantum non-locality.  I will try to explain how these novel ideas arise from our physics and how they provide another way of looking at the world that David Bohm was developing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Basil Hiley\, collaborator and colleague of David Bohm for over 30 years \n\n\n\nBasil J. Hiley is a British quantum physicist and professor emeritus of the University of London. He received the Majorana Prize ‘Best Person in Physics’ in 2012. A long-time co-worker of David Bohm\, Hiley is known for his work with Bohm on the implicate order and for his work on algebraic descriptions of quantum physics in terms of underlying symplectic and orthogonal Clifford algebras. Hiley co-authored the book The Undivided Universe with David Bohm\, which is considered the main reference for Bohm’s interpretation of quantum theory. \n\n\n\nThe work of Bohm and Hiley has been characterized as primarily addressing the question ‘whether we can have an adequate conception of the reality of a quantum system\, be this causal or be it stochastic or be it of any other nature’ and meeting the scientific challenge of providing a mathematical description of quantum systems that matches the idea of an implicate order. \n\n\n\nIn 1961 Hiley was appointed assistant lecturer at Birkbeck College\, where Bohm had taken the chair of Theoretical Physics shortly before. Hiley wanted to investigate how physics could be based on a notion of process\, and he found that David Bohm held similar ideas. He reports that during the seminars he held together with Roger Penrose he was particularly fascinated by John Wheeler’s ‘sum over three geometries’ ideas that he was using to quantize gravity. \n\n\n\nHiley worked with David Bohm for many years on fundamental problems of theoretical physics. Initially Bohm’s model of 1952 did not feature in their discussions; this changed when Hiley asked himself whether the ‘Einstein-Schrödinger equation\,’ as Wheeler called it\, might be found by studying the full implications of that model. They worked together closely for three decades. Together they wrote many publications\, including the book The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory\, published 1993\, which is now considered the major reference for Bohm’s interpretation of quantum theory. \n\n\n\n In 1995\, Basil Hiley was appointed to the chair in physics at Birkbeck College at the University of London. He was awarded the 2012 Majorana Prize in the category The Best Person in Physics for the algebraic approach to quantum mechanics and furthermore in recognition of ‘his paramount importance as natural philosopher\, his critical and open minded attitude towards the role of science in contemporary culture.’ \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here
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SUMMARY:Quantum Trajectories and the Nature of Wholeness in David Bohm’s Quantum Theory
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuantum Trajectories and the Nature of Wholeness in David Bohm’s Quantum Theory \n\n\n\nwith Chris Dewdney  \n\n\n\nJuly 19 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session   \n\n\n\nChris Dewdney will review a selection of the animations that he originated during the period from 1979\, when the Two-Slit calculations were first published\, up to the more recent field-matter interaction examples. The animations will be shown (many in the updated form seen in the documentary Infinite Potential) during his talk and he will explain in a non-technical way\, how they were produced and exactly what they show. For each animation\, the implications for our understanding of quantum mechanics and the nature of reality will be drawn out. In particular\, it will be argued that the fundamental nonlocality of quantum mechanics demands that we must transcend our common-sense perception that events are determined solely by processes taking place within ordinary space and time. The true arena in which Schödinger’s quantum mechanics plays out is ‘configuration space’ and these will illustrate\, using the animations\, how Bohm’s trajectories within this space give rise to nonlocal connections in our everyday space and to the wholeness that is seen in complex quantum systems (everything is a complex quantum system). Finally\, there will be discussion on the nature of quantum fields in David Bohm’s quantum field theory and the interaction between quantum fields and quantum matter\, hence revealing the nature of the photon. \n\n\n\nEach of the animations will be shown and discussed in turn\, allowing plenty of time for questions and answers after each. The animations considered will be: \n\n\n\n\nEinstein’s single slit experiment\n\n\n\nThe two-slit experiment\n\n\n\nQuantum measurement—the Stern Gerlach experiment and the measurement of quantum spin\n\n\n\nNonlocality in David Bohm’s version of the Einstein-Podolski-Rosen experiment\n\n\n\nThe nature of the field in David Bohm’s quantum field theory\n\n\n\nThe nature of the photon in the interaction between quantum fields and matter.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Dewdney\, PhD. Reader in Theoretical Physics at the University of Portsmouth.  \n\n\n\nChris Dewdney obtained a joint degree in Physics and Philosophy from the University of Warwick in 1973. He then continued his interest in philosophy of physics\, at the postgraduate level\, studying History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge; there his dissertation was written on Niels Bohr’s Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. \n\n\n\nChris then obtained funding from the British Science Research Council to work towards a PhD in David Bohm’s group in the Physics Department at Birkbeck College in London. There\, Chris started to read Bohm’s papers on the notion of order in physics\, attended Bohm’s undergraduate lectures on quantum theory and the frequent postgraduate seminars. Initially\, Chris was the only full-time PhD student at that time working in Bohm’s group. At Birkbeck\, students had to find their own PhD topic\, the main thrust of the research was around formulating a mathematical description of Bohm’s notion of the holomovement and the processes of ‘becoming.’ Bohm’s 1952 hidden-variable theory was not discussed at the time and it was pure serendipity (browsing in the bookshop) that lead Chris to formulate his own PhD study demonstrating in detail how Bohm’s 1952 theory accounted for all of the ‘paradoxical’ features of quantum theory\, starting with the double-slit experiment. Whilst at Birkbeck\, Chris also produced the first computer-generated motion picture animations of quantum tunnelling. \n\n\n\nOn completion of his PhD in 1983\, Chris was awarded a Royal Society Fellowship which he held in Jean-Pierre Vigier’s group at the Insitut Henri Poincare in Paris. During the fellowship Chris extended the detailed de Broglie-Bohm theory calculations to include neutron interferometry and the processes of spin measurement and spin superposition. \n\n\n\nIn 1986\, Chris took up a permanent teaching and research position at The University of Portsmouth in the UK\, becoming a Reader in Theoretical Physics in 1992. At Portsmouth he extended his work in de Broglie-Bohm theory to give a detailed\, de Broglie-Bohm account of the nonlocal processes evident\, for example\, in the Einstein\, Podolsky and Rosen experiment. At Portsmouth\, working with George Horton\, and his own students\, Chris also developed detailed de Broglie-Bohm accounts of quantum chaos\, the motion of quantum fields and the quantized exchange of energy between matter and radiation. \n\n\n\nChris’s work in carrying out the detailed calculations of quantum mechanical processes helped transform the situation regarding interest in\, and acceptance of\, de Broglie-Bohm theory. Although at first\, he was almost alone in pursuing de Broglie-Bohm theory calculations\, today there is a small industry doing so for many different physical circumstances. Chris’s work helped put de Broglie-Bohm theory centre stage in the foundations of quantum theory context. When he started out\, Bohm’s approach was hardly considered\, and none had carried out detailed calculations within the interpretation of quantum theory community; today it is considered a viable theory\, and this is in some part due to Chris’s work. \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here
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SUMMARY:David Bohm in the 1940s: Science\, Scientific Style and Political Engagement
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Bohm in the 1940s: Science\, Scientific Style and Political Engagement \n\n\n\nwith Olival Freire Jr.  \n\n\n\nJuly 18 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session   \n\n\n\nWhen David Bohm arrived in California in the early 1940s for graduate studies he had already consolidated two intellectual trends which would characterize his whole life. He knew what kind of physics he enjoyed working on; while he was attracted to theoretical physics and had exhibited skills in mathematics\, he had no patience for the solving problem style of physics he had found at Caltech. Instead he looked for speculative and conceptual science. Bohm\, however\, was not only concerned with science\, for him science was part of a larger picture involving society as a whole. During the Great Depression he had shifted from a strong commitment to individualism along the lines of the American Dream to a more socially inclined\, even sympathetic\, social view. As for physics subjects\, he began to work on a subject\, plasma\, which was inherited from the war effort and he moved to the subject to which he would dedicate his entire life: the quest to understand the quantum world. Olival will present and reflect on Bohm’s early stage of his mature life looking for elements of continuity we may find in his whole life. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Olival Freire Jr.\, professor of physics and history of science \n\n\n\nOlival Freire Jr. is Professor of Physics and History of Physics at the Universidade Federal da Bahia\, Brazil. In Brazil\, he was trained in Physics (UFBA)\, he earned a PhD in History (USP) in 1995 and is fellow at the CNPq in History of Science. \n\n\n\nHe founded the Graduate Program in Science Teaching\, History and Philosophy of Science at UFBA\, in Brazil. He served as President of the Sociedade Brasileira de História da Ciência\, the Commission on the History of Physics at DHST and as a member of the council of History of Science Society. \n\n\n\nHe was researcher at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science\, MIT\, Harvard\, Université de Paris VII\, University of Maryland\, and Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics. \n\n\n\nHe has published a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as books and book chapters. He wrote The Quantum Dissidents—Rebuilding the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics 1950-1990\, Springer\, 2015\, and David Bohm—A Life Dedicated to Understanding the Quantum World\, Springer\, 2019. \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here
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SUMMARY:Infinite Potential: A Filmmaker's Journey into the World of David Bohm
DESCRIPTION:Infinite Potential: A Filmmaker’s Journey into the World of David Bohm \n\n\n\nwith Paul Howard  \n\n\n\nJuly 12 at 18:00 (CEST) for a 2-hour live session  \n\n\n\nHaving just completed a film on David Bohm’s life\, his incredible work in physics\, philosophy and the nature of consciousness\, the question that Paul asked himself was\, how come I never before heard about this extraordinary man and his work? \n\n\n\nHe was the man Einstein called his ‘spiritual son’ and the Dalai Lama his ‘science guru\,’ so why is it that the world hardly knows his name? \n\n\n\nPaul Howard’s film is an attempt to answer that question\, to shine a light into the world of Bohm and how making the film changed his life. \n\n\n\nIt’s a film he believes has the potential to change the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Howard\, Film and Television Producer and Director\, Ireland \n\n\n\nA Producer\, Director\, Executive Producer of International repute with an enviable track record in documentary\, television series and more recently in feature film production.He has just completed work on the documentary titled Infinite Potential—The Life and Ideas of David Bohm for release in 2020. \n\n\n\nPaul has worked across most disciplines in the film/television industry over the past 30 years in Ireland and overseas as a director\, producer\, writer\, covering genres such as biography\, natural history\, wildlife. He has directed many critically acclaimed documentaries. He has worked for RTE (Ireland’s Public Service Broadcaster)\, Imagine Limited (Independent Film Company)\, Nine Network (Sydney\, Australia)\, Nomad Films International (Melbourne\, Australia). \n\n\n\nSome recent successes include 21st Century Railway\, a modern history of railways; Waiting for Houlihan\, an arts documentary nominated for an IFTA award; Marsh to the Skies\, the secret Irish/American alliance that gave American access to Shannon Airport during the ‘Cold War’; The Irish in Hollywood\, a documentary ‘special’ on the cultural impact that the Irish have had on the famous Film Town; Bloomsday\, a documentary celebrating James Joyce’s Ulysses\, broadcast internationally. \n\n\n\nIn Australia\, Paul completed Triumph of the Nomads\, a history of Australia prior to the arrival of European white settlement; and The Pintubi\, a series about the last remaining tribe of Aborigines who roamed the outback of Australia up until 1935. Also\, Breakthroughs\, a series on the latest developments in science and medicine. \n\n\n\nTo see the full Summer Series and list of speakers click here
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SUMMARY:Infinite Potential: Exploring the Life and Work of David Bohm - Summer Series
DESCRIPTION:Pari Center Online Summer Series\n\n\n\nJoin us for one or all of our two-hour sessionsSaturday and Sunday from July 12–August 239:00am (PDT)/12:00pm (EDT)/6:00pm (CEST) \n\n\n\nThis summer we are offering a unique opportunity to take part in an exploration of Bohm’s life and ideas. Join us online for a series of presentations by former colleagues of David Bohm and scholars of his work. Each session will allow time for audience participation in the form of dialogue\, discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nThe presenters\, many of whom were interviewed in the Infinite Potential documentary\, will examine the many facets of Bohm’s life and work—physics\, philosophy\, wholeness\, implicate and explicate orders\, holomovement\, consciousness\, dialogue\, language and the rheomode\, interaction with the Blackfoot\, his relationship and dialogues with J. Krisnamurti. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSunday July 12Infinite Potential: A Filmmaker’s Journey into the World of David Bohmwith Paul Howard \n\n\n\nSaturday July 18David Bohm in the 1940s: Science\, Scientific Style\, and Political Engagementwith Olival Freire Jr. \n\n\n\nSunday July 19Quantum Trajectories and the Nature of Wholeness in David Bohm’s Quantum Theorywith Chris Dewdney \n\n\n\nSaturday July 25How does the Classical World Emerge from the Implicate Order?with Basil Hiley \n\n\n\nSunday July 26Laozi and the Implicate Order: Wholeness in Daoism and Quantum Physicswith Shantena Augusto Sabbadini \n\n\n\nSaturday August 1The Blackfoot Worldview\, Language and David Bohmwith Leroy Little Bear \n\n\n\nSunday August 2Recovering Coherency in Politics and Society Through Dialoguewith Glenn Aparicio Parry \n\n\n\nSaturday August 8Insight and Illusion in Bohmian Psychologywith David Moody \n\n\n\nSunday August 9Understanding Quantum Reality and Consciousnesswith Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSaturday August 15Tracing the Story of David Bohm and Dialogue with Beth Macy \n\n\n\nSunday August 16Beyond Dialoguewith Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSaturday August 22Beyond the Known Dimension: A Journey into David Bohm’s Implicate Orderwith David Schrum \n\n\n\nSunday August 23Nonlocality\, Interconnectedness\, and the Quantum Observerwith Jan Walleczek
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