Bohm believed that the alternative way toward understanding a whole arises through participation rather than abstraction. “A different kind of consciousness is possible among us, a participatory consciousness.” In a genuine dialogue, “each person is participating, is partaking of the whole meaning of the group and also taking part in it.” This is

am going to argue that the key to getting unstuck, in all three cases, is relocating that act of thought—the act of thought that is inquisitive, open-minded, and oriented both toward truth and away from falsehood—from its usual home inside one person’s head into the shared space of the conversation that passes between two people.