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David Bohm

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its

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David Bohm is saying that the very tool we rely on to fix issues—our thinking—can actually cause those problems in the first place. He compares this to how doctors sometimes unintentionally make patients sicker, noting that this happens in about 20% of medical cases, suggesting a similar paradox exists with thought.

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