The conversation centers around a new worldview that is developing in part of the Western world, one that places more focus on wholeness and process than analysis of separate parts . Bohm explains the basics of the theory of relativity and its more revolutionary offspring, quantum theory. Either theory, if carried out to its extreme, violates every concept on which we base our understanding of reality. Both challenge our notions of our world and ourselves. He cites evidence from both theories that support a new paradigm of a more interrelated, fluid, and less absolute basis of existence, one in which mind is an active participant .
Information contributes fundamentally to the qualities of substance .
He discusses forms, fields, superconductivity, wave function and electron behavior. The electron has a mindlike quality. In this model, as in a hologram, any element contains enfolded within itself the totality of its universe. Bohm's concept of totality included both matter and mind . Bohm also mentions the dangers we face as a society and the changes we will have to make in our thinking in order to have a future.