1. Bohm-prigogine centenary
David lorimer

2. Complexity and the implicate order
David Bohm – Ilya Prigogine –
Personal recollections and conferences

3. Background influences
Appearance and reality
Evolution and thermodynamics
Henri Bergson – time, duration, novelty, creativity
Alfred North Whitehead – process, organism, theories as abstraction
Krishnamurti – nature of thought

4. The Nature of Science
“Science is the attempt to understand reality. Science is a quasi-religious activity in the broadest sense of the term” – George Wald
“ Science is… the interplay between the concrete details and abstract reasoning, between inductive and deductive way, between the senses that register the data and the abstract mind that orders it into meaningful patterns of relationships.” – Renee Weber

5. Major common themes Search for unity (also in QM)
Order (Implicate-Explicate/out of Chaos)
Process (also dialogue) and emergence
Time (evolution, reversibility)
Creativity and novelty

6. Key metaphors Beyond mechanism, predictability and linearity
Implicate and explicate orders – ground and manifestation, unity and separation
Complex dynamic systems – dissipative structures, self-organisation, bifurcation points, emergence of greater order
End of certainty –stability a limiting case of instability
The future is creatively open - autopoeisis