Chapter 1 of [Wholeness And The Implicate Order] by [David Bohm]


* Human work and study tend to exhibit [Fragmentation "fragmentation"]
* Similarly, societies also tend to exhibit this.
* As a result the natural world is seen as being [Fragmentation "fragmented"]

This ability to divide the world up into manageable chunks has [BenefitsOfFragmentedWorldView "benefits"] but they tend to be confined to the pragmatic sphere of human activity.

When applied to thinking about human [Consciousness "consciousness"] and the underlying nature of the world then
fragmented thought combined with the human tendency to [ConfusionOfMentalRepresentationsWithReality "confuse mental representations with reality"] leads to a self-fulfilling model of the world as itself [Fragmentation "fragmented"]. This distorted thinking leads to [NegativeConsequencesOfFragmentedWorldView "negative consequences"].

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