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From: smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu (Stephen Smoliar)
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Subject: Re: David Bohm speaks
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Date: 18 Nov 89 23:33:03 GMT
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When David Bohm came to UCLA, he gave one talk to the Physics Department and
one to the Cognitive Science Group.  This allowed him to get more technical
than he probably could at a public lecture.  Now I have to confess that it
has been quite some time since I looked at the Schroedinger wave equation,
which means that it is not too difficult for a "granola scientist" to pull
a fast one on me.  Nevertheless, it seemed like the general direction in which
he was heading was that he wanted to put "information" up there along with
"matter" and "energy" as a fundamental building block for our understanding
of the physical world.  I believe this is basically the punch line behind what
he called "soma-significance."  I would like to pursue this matter further;
and I bought myself a copy of UNFOLDING MEANING, which is apparently the only
thing in writing available about soma-significance.  (The "implicate order"
theme is in his book WHOLENESS AND THE IMPLICATE ORDER.)  Now all I need is
the time to sit down and do some serious reading . . .

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