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APPENDIX 527
es the activity of a new kind of implicate order [i.e., the
super-implicate order].
That perspective then incorporates both the idea of the implicate
order being a “movement of outgoing and incoming waves,”
and Bohm’s original “causal” (or “hidden variable”) interpretation
of quantum theory. (The latter formulation was published in 1952,
and already contained the quantum potential term.)
The quantum potential appears when one is solving Schrödinger’s
equation in deriving the “WKB approximation” of quantum
theory, for example (see Chapter 3 of Bohm and Hiley [1993]).
That (mathematical) term is present immediately alongside the
electromagnetic potential acting on the same system. And indeed,
the quantum potential, with an effect that does not drop off with
increasing distance, exerts a physical force on the matter in its vicinity,
just as does the electromagnetic potential. In neither case
does matter “arise” from such potentials, nor did the “original
meaning” of the quantum potential ever suggest that it might, in
spite of Wilber’s (1982) misunderstandings to the contrary:
[M]atter [possibly] arises from a physical energy-sea. This
seems to me the original meaning of Bohm’s ... quantum potential.
The aforementioned super-implicate order, again, is a field
which determines the behavior of the particles of the (first) implicate
and the explicate orders. Although it is “the source from which
the forms of the first implicate order are generated” (Bohm and
Peat, 1987), it is not simply “another level of enfolding/unfolding
particles,” akin to another link in the perennial philosophy’s Great
Chain of Being. (This will become highly relevant later on, regarding
Wilber’s use of his own misunderstandings in that regard to
find additional fault with Bohm’s work.)
The super-implicate order makes the implicate order nonlinear
and organizes it into relatively stable forms with complex
structures (Bohm, in [Weber, 1986]).
The essential flow [of explicated matter through time] is not
from one place to another but a movement within the implicate
and super-implicate ... orders. At every moment, the totality
of these orders is present and enfolded throughout all
space so ... they all interpenetrate (Bohm and Peat, 1987).