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Subject: David Bohm speaks
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Date: 16 Nov 89 08:54:02 GMT
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David Bohm gave a general purpose, big audience talk at UCSB yesterday.
In the foyer of campbell hall were minions of the Ojai crowd who peddle
krishnamurti literature (bohm used to hang out with the now deceased
guru of indeterminate one-time Indian extraction).  He spoke about his
concept of the 'implicate order' of the universe and all and everything.
Certainly his notion that some kind of 'wholeness' forms/patterns are
more fundamental than physical phenomena is appealing to abstract
computationalists.  It seemed to me that his analogy sets up a 
precedence of a pattern/context system over and above the generally
defered-to physical system of physical phenomena in space-time
(juxtaposition of pattern/context with field/spatial-extent)
To computational paradigmists, it would seem that bohm's stuff can
be accomodated within some notion of privileged, super-fundamental
pattern-generating phenomena.