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Bohm’s ideas goes, in Gardner’s wholly non-mystical regard that
very advocacy is increasing.
Likewise, Eric Dennis (2001; italics added) has noted that,
contrary to past “almost maniacal” reactions to the “dissidents” in
quantum physics, and to Bohm in particular,
the last two decades have brought major changes.... Indeed,
there now seems to be increasing support among physicists
for exorcising the [Copenhagen interpretation-based] notion
of observer-created reality from the foundations of physical
science.
Of course, if Wilber’s asserted “widespread disrepute” of
Bohm’s ideas was referring simply to the fading hopes of the “holographic
paradigm” within transpersonal/integral psychology, he
may well be right about the increasing disrepute of that endeavor.
For, those attempts by his fellow transpersonal and integral psychologists
(not by Bohm) to split psychological stages or states of
consciousness between the implicate and explicate orders are indeed
not worthy of serious consideration.
Regardless, even widespread “ill repute” (whether in serious
physics, transpersonal/integral psychology, or both) would at most
show the temporary unpopularity of a theory, not say anything
about its truth-value. That is, given a community of intersubjective
interpreters who have not bothered to properly understand the
theory in the first place, as has been the case with Bohm’s ideas in
both physics (Peat, 1997) and transpersonal/integral psychology,
its degree of repute or disrepute is wholly irrelevant. That, indeed,
is even aside from the separate problem that, as Max Planck noted
three-quarters of a century ago, new theories and paradigms gain
acceptance not via any force of logical persuasion in their arguments.
Rather, they eventually become accepted simply via the
“old generation” of intersubjective interpreters dying out.
Having said all that, though, we still cannot help but note that
both John S. Bell and Richard Feynman contributed papers, in explicit
honor, celebration and good repute of Bohm and his work in
serious physics, to Hiley and Peat’s (1987) Quantum Implications.
(Bell was the creator of Bell’s Inequality, which he developed on
the basis of Bohm’s work. Feynman was a Nobel Prize winner, and
heir to Einstein’s mantle of being regarded as “perhaps the smartest
man in the world.” He had little interest in the fundamental
issues of physics or philosophy, yet considered Bohm to be a “great”