Chapter 2: Bohm Meets Bacon Check Access

Physicist and philosopher David Bohm expressed the idea that there is both an Explicate and Implicate Order, using the thought experiment of ink dots on a stretchable matrix to demonstrate the principle of the variability of information to differing observer/participants. Both the periodic table of elements and the cellular approach to evolution are similarly based on experimental evidence. Controls are used in experiments to accommodate the pseudo-existence of the Explicate Order, tacitly acknowledging the subjectivity of our perception of reality, allowing us to witness the true Implicate Order that exists just beyond our perception, as in Bohm's stretchable matrix experiment. Similarly, in the arts, jazz is also a form of experimentation that is conducive to the transition from the Explicate to the Implicate Order, as are Henry Moore sculptures using negative space, Proust's “Remembrance of Things Past” stream of consciousness, and Joyce's “Ulysses, with Bloom's life occurring over the course of one twenty-four-hour period. Science is the only way we have of “knowing what we don't know,” experimentation enabling the transition from the Explicate to the Implicate Order.