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Particularly crucial to his scheme is the notion that objects which seem separated by great distances in the Explicate Order (such as a particular electron here on earth and an [[alpha particle]] in one of the stars in the [[Abell 1835 IR1916|Abell 1835 galaxy]], the farthest galaxy from Earth known to humans) may actually be manifestations of a single object within the Implicate Order. It seems his motivation for this perspective is the room within quantum mechanics for the [[quantum entanglement|entanglement]] of such objects.

Bohm uses the term [[holomovement]] to denote occurrences within the Implicate Order, particularly those that manufacture the explicate order. He also uses the term '''unfoldment''' in this last respect. Bohm likens unfoldment to the decoding of a television [[signal processing|signal]] to produce a sensible image on a screen. The signal, screen, and television electronics in this analogy represent the Implicate Order whilst the image produced represents the Explicate Order. Holomovement is the process taken as a whole.

In another analogy, Bohm asks us to consider a pattern produced by making small cuts in a folded piece of paper and then, literally, unfolding it. Widely separated elements of the pattern are, in actuality, produced by the same original cut in the folded piece of paper. Here the cuts in the folded paper represent the Implicate Order and the unfolded pattern represents the Explicate Order.

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Many, along with Bohm himself, have seen strong connections between his ideas and ideas from the East. Some proponents of [[new age| alternative religions]] (such as [[shamanism]]) claim a connection with their belief systems as well.

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^{<small>1</small>}A partial list:

[[Noumenon|Immanuel Kant]], [[John Locke]], [[George Berkeley]], [[René Descartes]], [[holographic principle]], [[unobservables]], [[Bodhi]], [[Mind's eye]]

==The Implicate Order and Deism==

Many [[Deist]]s believe that the implicate order and other empirically analysed phenomena are strong evidence for a [[God-Mind]] consciousness which presides over the totality of reality. However, in contrast to [[religion]], these people generally do not attribute personification, gender or belief systems to this Universal Mind. Rather, they regard it as the all-pervading consciousness, existing in a non-local, non-temporal state, which comprises the whole of all existence, similar to the [[Early Christian]] concept of God (Jmmanuel: "The hierarchy of God is not in the sky, the sea, or the earth, but within you and without you, pervading all"), the [[Buddhist]] concept of Oneness, the [[Hindu]] concept of Brahman, etc. Although the religious groups generally attribute laws, tenets, or reward and punishment of some kind to God-Mind, whereas Deists generally do not, regarding It as completely neutral.

Some examples of Deists throughout history include [[Albert Einstein]], [[Benjamin Franklin]] (and most of the other United States Founding Fathers), [[Michael Faraday]], [[Renes Descartes]], [[Socrates]], [[Xenophanes]], [[Aristotle]], and many, many others.

A major proponent of the idea of a [[God-Mind]] is [[Stewart Swerdlow]], a mentalist who worked on the [[Montauk Project]], and claims to bear knowledge of many scientific concepts and information currently not available to the general public.

==See also==