Coincidance - Principia Discordia

236 COINCIDANCE
present in any other part of the universe. (Bohm's ideas are presented at
length in his Wholeness and the Implicate Order. I comment further on these
notions of both Schrodinger and Bohm in my recent work, The New Inquisition,
Falcon Press, 1987.)
Dr. Bohm is not the only physicist who thinks the Hidden Variables have
"mind-like" characteristics. Dr. E.H. Walker in his "The Compleat Quantum
Anthropologist" (Proceedings of the American Anthropological Association,
1974), Dr. Nick Herbert in Quantum Reality, and Dr. Fritjof Capra in The Tao of
Physics, have all expressed similar views about the mind-like implications of
the non-local correlation demanded by the basic quantum equations; and, of
course, when these equations were still new, Sir James Jeans said they made
the universe look "more like a great thought than a great machine."
Returning to Finnegans Wake, we have seen that the fourfold structure of
"mind" (or the levels of organization in the brain, going down to the cellular
and, finally, atomic and sub-atomic levels?) is indicated in a general way by
Joyce's functions of or conscious ego, or personal unconscious, or
collective unconscious and the non-local function which, we have just
summarized, may be "no mind" (as the Chinese say) but may be the class of
all minds or at least have Bohmian "mind-like" aspects. With more
specificity, Joyce uses a more complex symbology in which nonlocal
manifests as "male" and "female' , subdivided into an active male
force, a passive male force, , an active female force, , a passive
female force, , and two variables, and , which alter these active
and passive forces into their opposites.
We have seen that this is isomorphic with the cosmology of I Ching, in
which the nonlocal Tao functions as "male" yang ( ) and "female" yin ( ),
subdivided into active yang ( ), passive yang ( ), active yin ( ) and
passive yin ( ), with the moving lines ( and ) serving, like Joyce's
and , to convert active and passive into their opposites. The DNA script
is also isomorphic to this, as can be seen in this summarizing diagram:
A, C, G and T are the four amino acids bonding the DNA; and
are active yang, passive yang, active yin and passive yin. When the first set is
replaced by A, C, G, U in making an RNA messenger, these four are
permutated into all possible combinations of three, and we get the 64 "words"