Bohm had spoken with me in London about the relationship between “reality” and language: The implicate order is in the first instance a language. It’s not a description of reality but a language, an inner language, where you cannot associate each word to a thing. It’s more like music. You cannot say one note means anything. It’s like a painting. There are various spots of paint in an impressionist painting, but when you step back to see the picture, there is no correspondence between the spots of paint and what you see in the picture. Similarly, the implicate order and its mathematics does not
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