Bohm & Hiley’s implicate order requires a new way of thinking

KISS ended their recent live concert with holograms of lead singers. The way 3D images are constructed offer an analogy to David Bohm and Basil Hiley’s conception of the implicate order. It requires throwing out our normal way of thinking about the external world –– the Cartesian framework.

The second in a short series focused on David Bohm’s interpretation of quantum physics including consciousness found in Bohm and Hiley’s 1993 book The Undivided Universe.

The ideas explored in the previous post on David Bohm’s metaphysics are more physics than metaphysics. The mysteries of entanglement, superposition and measurement disappear in Bohm and Hiley’s ontological interpretation. A wave of information existing wherever the particle or field quantities may be found carries active information that establishes properties and path.

But what is this wave, and where does it come from? The active information that guides the particle is “chosen” out of infinite possibilities and the electron or particle follows one channel. How does it choose, or know what path to take and what properties it needs to relate to other particles or fields that result in our classical world? Part of that explanation is provided in the previous post where Bohm and Hiley say that in measurement, for example, the entire apparatus (assuming the human mind as well) are part of the system and that the information wave or quantum potential “sees” the system and determines the path or channel the particle takes. This raises all kinds of other questions, but we’ll leave that for now because the primary answer to that question is found in…