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520 STRIPPING THE GURUS
over the last decade and a half it has generally fallen into
widespread disrepute (and it has no support whatsoever
from recent physics).
In reprint (e.g., third) editions, “indefensible nature” has become
“inadequate nature”; “is even vaguely answered” has become
“is answered”; “theory to be refuted” has become “theory to be suspect”;
and “no support whatsoever from recent physics” has become
“little support from most physicists.”
So presumably, in the interim, someone did give a “vague answer”
to Wilber’s critique, pointing out to him that Bohm’s ideas
were not quite as “indefensible” as kw would have imagined them
to be. Also, that his addled objections to that reformulation of
quantum theory, based in its apparent failure to accommodate
mysticism’s hypothetical Great Chain of Being, did not entirely
“refute” it; and that his characterization of its ostensible lack of
support from real physics and physicists, too, was overblown.
I will be addressing Wilber’s original bombast, rather than his
subsequently “weasel worded” version of the same, in what follows.
For, I do not believe that any of us should be required to purchase
or slough through every new edition of each of kw’s repetitive
books, just to see how he has tried to pull his foot halfway out of
his mouth in softening his previous bold misrepresentations of other
people’s ideas. The conclusions here will stand firm, regardless.
Plus, as we shall see, Wilber’s own attitude toward Bohm’s work,
and corresponding attempts to easily dismiss it, have not improved
at all in his other writings since then.
* * *
To begin, then, we note that the primary points in Bohm’s fully
developed ontological/causal/deterministic formulation of quantum
theory, in terms of its relation to “holographic paradigms” and for
distinguishing it from the orthodox indeterministic theory, are the
following:
1. The existence of an “explicate order,” comprised of any
and all observable matter, whether it be Newtonian or
quantum; and the corresponding existence of an “implicate
order,” of diffused wave-representations of matter
overlapping one another, from which the explicate
order of apparently separate particles arises