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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Kort)
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Subject: Re: David Bohm speaks
Summary: Spellbinding words.
Keywords: Voodoo Indeed
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Date: 18 Nov 89 17:58:10 GMT
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In article <3033@hub.UUCP> silber@voodoo.ucsb.edu writes:

 > 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.

Oh to be able to speak and write like that!

--Barry Kort