Bohm, David. Wholeness and the Implicate Order. London: Ark Paperbacks, 1980: 001-213, 213 pages (QC 174).
  Fragmentation and wholeness, The rheomode - an experiment with language and thought, Reality and knowledge considered as process, Hidden variables in the quantum theory, Quantum theory as an indication of a new order in physics: the development of new order as shown in history; implicate and explicate order in physical law, The enfolding unfolding universe and consciousness.
___. Fragmentation and Wholeness. Chapter 1 in: Ibid.: 001-026, 26 pages
  Fragmentation is now very widespread, not only throughout society, but also in each individual. This is leading to a kind of general confusion of the mind, which crates an endless series of problems and interferes with our clarity of perception so seriously as to prevent us from being able to solve most of them.
___. The Rheomode - An Experiment with Language and Thought. Chapter 2 in: Ibid.: 027-047, 21 pages
  Introduction, An inquiry into our language, The form of the rheomode (a mode in which movement is taken as primary in our thinking by allowing the verb rather than the noun to play the primary role), Truth and fact in the rheomode, The rheomode and its implications for our overall world view.
___. Reality and Knowledge Considered as Process. Chapter 3 in: Ibid.: 048-064, 17 pages
  Introduction, Thought and intelligence, The thing and the thought, Thought and non thought, The field of knowledge considered as process. Not only is everything changing, but all is flux. That is to say, what is the process of becoming itself, while all objects, events, entities, conditions, structures, etc., are forms that can be abstracted from this process.
___. The Enfolding Unfolding Universe and Consciousness. Chapter 7 in: Ibid.: 172-213, 42 pages
  Introduction, Contrasting mechanistic order in physics with implicate order, The implicate order and the general structure of matter, Quantum theory as an indication of a multidimensional implicate order, Cosmology and the implicate order, The implicate order, life and the force of overall necessity, Consciousness and the implicate order, Matter, consciousness and their common ground.


Bohm, David, and Hiley, Basil J. Introduction. in: The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1993: 001-012, 12 pages (QC 174).
  Why an ontological interpretation is called for: Quantum theory is primarily directed towards epistemology which focuses on the question of how we obtain knowledge. It says little or nothing about reality itself. It does not give what can be called an ontology for a quantum system. Ontology is concerned with that which is. This book shows that we can give an ontological interpretation of quantum theory.
___. Quantum Theory and the Implicate Order. Chapter 15 in: Ibid.: 350-392, 43 pages
  Relativity and quantum theory as indicators of a new order for physics, Qualitative introduction to the implicate order, Example of the implicate order, Implicate versus explicate orders, General notion of order, Algebra of the implicate order, Hilbert space model, Trajectories arising from wave structures, Pre space and the implicate order, Super implicate order, Implicate order of consciousness, Further extension to an overall approach.


Capra, Fritjof. The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism. Boulder, Colorado: Shambhala Publications, 1975: 001-307, 307 pages (QC 6).
  Preface, Way of physics (Modern physics - a path with heart? Knowing and seeing, Beyond language, New physics), Way of eastern mysticism (Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese thought, Taoism, Zen), Parallels (Unity of all things, Beyond the world of opposites, Space - time, Dynamic universe, Emptiness and form, Cosmic dance, Quark symmetries - a new koan? Patterns of change, Interpenetration), Epilogue.
___. Taoism. Chapter 8 in: Ibid.: 113-118, 6 pages
  Taoism is interested in intuitive wisdom, rather than in rational knowledge. Acknowledging the limitations and the relativity of the world of rational thinking, Taoism is, basically, a way of liberation from this world.
___. The Cosmic Dance. Chapter 15 in: Ibid.: 225-245, 21 pages
  The exploration of the subatomic world reveals the intrinsically dynamic nature of matter. The whole universe is engaged in endless motion and activity; in a continual cosmic dance of energy. In Hindu thought, the god image Shiva represents the clearest metaphor for this activity. Shiva is the dancing universe; the ceaseless flow of energy going through an infinite variety of patterns that melt into one another.
___. Interpenetration. Chapter 18 in: Ibid.: 285-301, 16 pages
  The world view of the Eastern mystics shares with the bootstrap philosophy of modern physics not only an emphasis on the mutual interrelation and self consistency of all phenomena, but also the denial of fundamental constituents of matter. In a universe which is an inseparable whole and where all forms are fluid and ever changing, there is no room for any fixed fundamental entity.


Capra, Fritjof. The New Physics Revisited. Afterword to the Second Edition in: The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism. 3rd ed., expanded. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1991: 309-321, 13 pages (QC 6).
  Since the first publication of The Tao of Physics, there has been considerable progress in various areas of subatomic physics. The new developments have not invalidated any of the parallels to Eastern thought but, on the contrary, have enforced them. This afterword discusses the most relevant results of new research in atomic and subatomic physics up to the summer of 1982.
___. The Future of the New Physics. Afterword to the Third Edition in: Ibid.: 323-341, 19 pages
  The vision (Capra designed a photomontage of a dancing Shiva superimposed on tracks of colliding particles in a bubble chamber to illustrate his experience of the cosmic dance.), Impact of this book, The paradigm shift, Influence of Heisenberg and Chew, New paradigm thinking in science, Criticism of the Tao of Physics, Current developments and future possibilities.


Elam, Joyce J., and Mead, Melissa. Can Software Influence Creativity? Information Systems Research. 1990; 1 (1): 001-022, 22 pages (QA 76).
  Decision support systems emerged to enable decision makers to develop better and more creative solutions to problems. The realization of this promise depends on the validity of two assumptions: 1) individuals can be helped to be more creative and 2) appropriate software can provide this help. Of three groups of auditors, two groups were given two different versions of software thought to enhance creativity and the other group was given no software. The results indicate the creativity of the responses generated by the three groups were significantly different.


Friedman, Norman. The Mind Body Problem from a New Perspective. Chapter 6 in: Bridging Science and Spirit: Common Elements in David Bohm's Physics, The Perennial Philosophy and Seth. St. Louis, Missouri: Living Lake Books, 1994: 233-242, 10 pages (QC 6).
  Our view of the mind body problem stands in direct opposition to the classical approach. In classical physics, the elementary particle was acted upon by blind forces which, in aggregate, create our macro world. The causal arrow was from the elementary to the complex. The new physics reverses the process: causation points downward from the macro to the micro. The implicate order the primary; the particle is secondary. Guidelines are set by the whole, and the various levels of the explicate order move in concert with the overall program.
___. Eastern and Western Thought as Aspects of a Common Reality. Chapter 10 in: Ibid.: 271-280, 10 pages
  This chapter discusses aspects of physics, mysticism, and the occult, with an emphasis on the similarities among them. The theme of wholeness is central to all these disciplines. Science as the epitome of Western thought and spirituality as the epitome of Eastern thought are not separate disciplines; they are different aspects of the same whole, each dancing around the other, waiting to be merged in human awareness.
___. Toward a New Paradigm. Chapter 11 in: Ibid.: 281-292, 12 pages
  The evolution of paradigms (The Newtonian model, Relativity and quantum theories, The Copenhagen interpretation), Elements of a new vision (Consciousness, Levels of consciousness, Mind body, Motion, Matter formation, Multidimensional space, Time, Purpose in the universe, Light, Wholeness). Many observers of Western society have voiced their concerns that not only is our present scientific paradigm too narrow, but that it is time for a broadening - and deepening - of the general worldview.


Lawlor, Robert. The Primal Act: The Division of Unity. Chapter 3 in: Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice. New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 1982: 023-031, 9 pages (QA 447).
  Uses geometry to show how unity became multiplicity to recapture the orderly movement from infinite formlessness to endless interconnected arrays of forms. Workbook 1 (The square cut by its diagonal). When one becomes two, the potential of endless multiplicity through progression arises. Unity and multiplicity are perfectly represented in the simple drawing of the square and its diagonal.
___. Proportion and the Golden Mean. Chapter 5 in: Ibid.: 044-064, 21 pages
  There is only one proportion which is possible with two terms: the smaller is to the larger the same as the larger is to the smaller plus the larger. This Golden Proportion is t he transcendent "idea - form" which must exist a priori and eternally before all the progressions which evolve in time and space. Workbook 5 (The Golden Proportion).


Mackay, Jane M., and Elam, Joyce J. A Comparative Study of How Experts and Novices Use a Decision Aid to Solve Problems in Complex Knowledge Domains. Information Systems Research. 1992; 3 (2): 150-172, 23 pages (QA 76).
  Professionals were divided into four groups, depending on whether they were experts or novices in the functional area of business represented by the task and on whether they were experts or novices in the use of spreadsheet software. Results of the study indicate that a lack of spreadsheet expertise inhibited the application of functional area knowledge. Results also indicated that individuals need to obtain a level of expertise in using a decision aid before they are able to apply their functional area knowledge to the problem at hand.


March, Robert H. Origins of Relativity: How Long is a Moving Train. Chapter 9 in: Physics for Poets. Chicago: Contemporary Books, Inc., 1978: 104-116, 12 pages (QC 23).
  In this chapter March shows how Einstein's intuitive thought processes led to the discovery of the most profound ideas of modern physics. He begins with a quote from Einstein: "But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential."


O'Regan, Patrick J. Intuition and Logic. Mathematics Teacher. 1988; 81 (8): 664-668, 5 pages (QA 1).
  It is important that we emphasize the connection between the rules of logic and intuition since it is the basis for the underlying understanding of formal logic. This article shows how to capitalize on students' ways of thinking to lead them to a greater understanding of logical relationships.


Otte, Michael. Intuition and Logic. For the Learning of Mathematics. June 1990; 10 (2): 037-043, 7 pages (QA 11).
  The world as a labyrinth, Intuition and time, Knowledge has no definite structure. Intuitive seems the opposite of logical. Logic seems to be clearly understood, while intuition appears elusive. Solving the labyrinth leads to an Icarus with and without wings: a winged one whose "sighted" intuition makes up a plan for the maze and a "blind" one looking along the paths of the labyrinth.


Prigogine, Ilya. Preface. In: From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1980: xi-xix, 9 pages (QC 173).
  The main theses of this book: 1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones, 2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world, and 3) irreversibility is deeply rooted in dynamics. This formulation leads to a unified picture that enables us to relate many aspects of our observations of physical systems to biological ones.
___. The Laws of Change. Chapter 9 in: Ibid.: 200-215, 16 pages.
  Einstein's dilemma, Time and change, Time and entropy as operators, Levels of description, Past and future, An open world. Classical science was an attempt to go beyond the world of appearances to reach a timeless world of supreme rationality. But there seems to be a more subtle form of reality that involves both laws and games, time and eternity. This new awareness has generated a new dialogue between nature and man.


Taggart, William. Preface. In: Information Systems: An Introduction to Computers in Organizations. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1980: xv-xix, 4 pages (QA 76).
  The textbook was designed to assist students in using an integrated rational - intuitive study method. The same emphasis was given to presenting the material in figures and illustrations that was given to the narrative. All figures were prepared for the book before the first word of text was written. The left hemisphere of the brain specializes in rational word processing, and the right, in intuitive pattern processing. After you are accustomed to the suggested study emphasis you will achieve more efficient processing and more effective comprehension of the material.
___. The Information Resource. Chapter 2 in Module 1 Introduction in: Ibid.: 040-070, 31 pages
  This textbook recognized the importance of the difference in rational and intuitive modes of problem solving for the development of information systems support. Human information processing specializes corresponding to the hemispheres of the brain. The left (rational) side focuses on logical - sequential - causal - analytic problem solving. The complementary right (intuitive) side exhibits a nonlogical - simultaneous - acausal - holistic pattern. The intuitive mode plays a greater role in higher level management decision making and the rational, in lower level management.


Taggart, William, and Silbey, Valdur. Information Processing. Chapter 1 in Module 1 People and Computers in: Information Systems: People and Computers in Organizations. 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1986: 001-045, 45 pages (QA 76).
  Information and processing (Levels, Information system), Processing in humans and machines (Types, Dual mode (left - rational and right - intuitive) human processing , Single mode electronic processing), Human/machine systems (Information gap, Organization, Mix), Information systems concept (Organization's context, Elements, Communication system), Whole brain human processing. The whole brain approach balances the rational/intuitive styles.


Talbot, Michael. The Brain as Hologram. Chapter 1 in Part I: A Remarkable New View of Reality in: The Holographic Universe. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991: 011-031, 21 pages (QC 449).
  This chapter summarizes Karl Pribram's ideas on the holographic nature of the human brain: The breakthrough, Vision is also holographic, Other puzzles explained by the holographic brain model, Experimental support for the holographic brain, The mathematical language of the hologram, The dancer as wave form, The reaction of the scientific community, Pribram encounters Bohm. These ideas provide the rationale for appreciating "intuition in the small."
___. The Cosmos as Hologram. Chapter 2 in: Ibid.: 032-055, 24 pages
  This chapter summarizes David Bohm's ideas on the implicate and explicate order: Bohm and interconnectedness, A living sea of electrons, Bohm's disillusionment, A new kind of field and the bullet that killed Lincoln, If you want to know where you are, ask the non locals, Enter the hologram, Enfolded orders and unfolded realities, The undivided wholeness of things, Consciousness as a more subtle form of matter, The energy of a trillion atomic bombs, Experimental support for Bohm, The reaction of the physics community, Pribram and Bohm together. These ideas offer a rationale for "intuition in the large."


Weizenbaum, Joseph. Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1976: 001-287, 287 pages (QA 76).
  On tools, Where the power of the computer comes from, How computers work, Science and the compulsive programmer, Theories and models, Computer models in psychology, The computer and natural language, Artificial intelligence, Incomprehensible programs, Against the imperialism of instrumental reason.
___. Artificial Intelligence. Chapter 8 in: Ibid.: 202-227, 26 pages
  The limits of the applicability of computers are ultimately statable only in terms of oughts. What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now give computers tasks that demand wisdom.
___. Incomprehensible Programs. Chapter 9 in: Ibid.: 228-257, 30 pages
  Instrumental reason, triumphant technique, and unbridled science are addictive. The optimistic technologists may yet be right: perhaps we have reached the point of no return. Now that we and no longer God are playing dice with the universe, how do we keep from coming up craps?
___. Against the Imperialism of Instrumental Reason. Chapter 10 in: Ibid.: 258-280, 23 pages
  If a teacher is to be an example of a whole person, he must strive to be a whole person. Instrumental reasons alone cannot lead to it. There is a crucial difference between man and machine. Man, in order to become whole, must be forever an explorer of both his inner and outer realities. What could it mean to speak of risk, courage, trust, endurance, and overcoming for a machine?


Zohar, Danah. A Quantum Mechanical Model of Consciousness. Chapter 6 in: The Quantum Self: Human Nature and Consciousness Defined by the New Physics. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1990: 076-091, 16 pages (QC 174).
  The author's model demonstrates one way that consciousness can be seen to function according to the laws of quantum mechanics. Seen as a bridge to the computerlike behavior of individual neurons in the brain, the model transcends dualism to provide a view that would encompass an understanding of intuitive experience.


Zukav, Gary. More Than Both. Chapter in Part Enlightenment (Quantum Logic & Bell's Theorem) in: The Dancing Wu Li Masters. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1979: 270-296, 27 pages (QC 173).
  Physics and enlightenment, Bell's theorem and quantum logic, John von Neumann, The description of a wave function, "Projections as propositions," David Finkelstein, Symbols and experience, Logos and mythos, The distributive law, Polarization of light, The third polarizer paradox, Superpositions, Quantum logic, "Proof," Transition tables, Lattices, Von Neumann's disproof of the distributive law, Quantum topology.
___. The End of Science. Chapter in Part Enlightenment (Quantum Logic & Bell's Theorem): Ibid.: 297-332, 36 pages
  Enlightenment and unity, J. S. Bell, Connectedness, Einstein Podolsky Rosen thought experiment, Superluminal communication, Principle of local causes, Bell's theorem, Freedman Clauser experiment, Jack Sarfatti, Superluminal transfer of negentropy, Aspect experiment, Superluminal communication, Non locality, Contrafactual definiteness, Superdeterminism, Many Worlds theory, Philosophy of quantum mechanics, David Bohm, Unbroken wholeness, Implicate order, "New" thought instrument, Eastern psychologies, Metaphor of physics, Kali, Path without form, Circle dance.

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