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APPENDIX
WILBER AND BOHM: AN ANALYSIS OF
THE PROBLEMS WITH KEN WILBER’S
“REFUTATIONS” OF DAVID BOHM’S IDEAS
Nobody is capable of producing 100% error—nobody is smart
enough to be wrong all the time (Wilber, 1999).
IN KEN WILBER’S THE EYE OF SPIRIT (1998), prefacing his criticism
of Jenny Wade’s (1996) appropriation of physicist David Bohm’s
“implicate order”-related ideas for her “holonomic” theory of consciousness,
we find the following assertion:
Bohm himself tended to realize the indefensible nature of his
position, and for a while he went through an awkward period
of adding implicate levels. There was the implicate level,
then the super-implicate level, then at one point, a supersuper-implicate
level. And all of this, of course, was claiming
to be based on empirical findings in physics!
I published [1982] a strong criticism of Bohm’s position,
which has never been answered by him or any of [his] followers....
Until this critique is even vaguely answered, I believe
we must consider Bohm’s theory to be refuted. And, anyway,
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