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David Bohm on Contradiction, Dialectic & Hegel

Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 10:02 am
by ErnestG
American physicist David Bohm (1917 – 1992) was interviewed in 12 sessions by the American Institute of Physics for their Oral Histories series in 1986 and 1987. The interviewer was British biophysicist Maurice Wilkins, who you may or may not remember shared the Nobel Prize for the structure of DNA with Francis Crick and James Watson in 1962.
In session 10 of the interviews Wilkins & Bohm discuss the concept of contradiction with frequent reference to Hegel.
A transcript of the interview (as wwell as the other sessions) may be read on the AIP website:

https://www.aip.org/history-programs/ni ... s/32977-10

Re: David Bohm on Contradiction, Dialectic and Hegel

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 8:14 am
by JerseyFlight
This is the most unique interview I have seen with Bohm. He was a most interesting fellow.

"...the basic principle of dialectic is twofold. One, that everything is in process and including thought itself, and therefore, anytime you pick something you will get a contradiction. Anything fixed must inevitably lead to contradiction. That was the first point. And the second point is that thought always abstracts from the connections, and that also leads to contradiction." Ibid. Bohm

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