Hanoch Gutfreund, Jürgen Renn
Abstract This chapter examines Bohm’s legacy. It shows how Bohm’s criticism of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, based on his philosophical reflections within the framework of dialectical materialism, is echoed in the approach of John Bell and others, who have driven the second quantum revolution to its current success, honored by the Physics Nobel Prize in 2022. It is argued that the lecture notes shed an unexpected light on the intellectual resources of Bohm’s persistent rebellion against orthodoxies in science, which secured him a unique role in the history of quantum theory. The last section is devoted to a new phase in Bohm’s thinking in the 1960s, when he turned away from Marxism and developed a growing interest in the nature of consciousness and engaged with the Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti, continuing his quest for an understanding of “wholeness,” the theme of his life.
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