He felt that the ‘active information’ that it could transmit to a particle had parallels with the activity of the mind, turning the entire universe into something resembling a conscious organism. This confers a unity that Bohm called the ‘implicate order’, which underpins the ‘explicate order’ accessible to the senses. Thought exists in the cosmos as a holistic entity akin to the quantum potential, which it would, he said, be ‘wrong and misleading to break . . . up into my thought, your thought’.
