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530 STRIPPING THE GURUS
That idea, however is not accurate, as Bohm (italics added) explained
earlier in the same book:
[I]t is characteristic of the hologram that if you illuminate a
part of the hologram you will get the information about the
whole picture but it will be less detailed and from less angles,
so the more of the hologram you take, the more detailed and
the more ample the information is always going to be.
Wilber (2003b), too, has recently come to understand that basic
principle.
It is therefore incorrect to say that every piece or part of a
holographic plate contains all (i.e., the “sum total”) of the information
about the entire scene. Indeed, the need to illuminate the entire
hologram in order to get back all of the information enfolded
into it follows from elementary laws of wave behavior, regardless
of the type of waves (sound, light, etc.) which are being used to create
and then display the hologram.
We have thus seen that Wilber’s claim that the implicate and
explicate orders are mutually exclusive is not at all valid. Also,
contrary to kw’s assertions, Bohm’s super-implicate order was not
merely an arbitrary addition to his earlier work. And, we have very
good reason to regard reality as having a holographic structure. All
of those distinguishing characteristics of Bohm’s work, further, are
most certainly “based on empirical findings in physics.”
“WIDESPREAD DISREPUTE”
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[O]ver the last decade and a half [Bohm’s work] has generally
fallen into widespread disrepute (and it has no support
whatsoever from recent physics).
We will consider that statement in two parts: first in terms of the
evolving reputation of Bohm’s ideas, and then with regard to the
documented support from recent physics for those same ideas. In
doing so, we shall see that Wilber has unabashedly misrepresented
the realities of both of those.