Exploration of General Systems Theory GST and Jainism may provide new frontiers of knowledge and evolution

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Author: Surendra Singh Pokharna
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Syntropy 2013 (2): 243-279
ISSN 1825-7968
Appendix 5. Implicate Order of Quantum mechanics and consciousness:
An abstract concept of "Order” has been also explored by David Bohm, who proposed a cosmological order radically different from generally accepted conventions, which he expressed as a distinction between the implicate and explicate order, described in the book (Bohm 1990)
In proposing this new notion of order, Bohm explicitly challenged a number of tenets that are fundamental to much scientific work. The tenets challenged by Bohm include:
1. That phenomena are reducible to fundamental particles and laws describing the
behavior of particles, or more generally to any static (i.e. Unchanging) entities, whether separate events in space-time, quantum states, or static entities of some other nature.
2. Related to (1), that human knowledge is most fundamentally concerned with the
mathematical prediction of statistical aggregates of particles.
3. That an analysis or description of any aspect of reality (e.g. Quantum theory, the speed
of light) can be unlimited in its domain of relevance.
4. That the Cartesian coordinate system, or its extension to a curvilinear system, is the
deepest conception of underlying order as a basis for analysis and description of the world.
5. That there is ultimately a sustainable distinction between reality and thought, and that
there is a Corresponding distinction between the observer and observed in an experiment or any other situation (other than a distinction between relatively separate entities valid in the sense of explicate order).
6. That it is, in principle, possible to formulate a final notion concerning the nature of
reality, e.g. a Theory of Everything
According to David Bohm, in the enfolded (or implicate) order, space and time are no longer the dominant factors determining the relationships of dependence or independence of different elements. Rather, an entirely different sort of basic connection of elements is possible, from which our ordinary notions of space and time, along with those of separately existent material particles, are abstracted as forms derived from the deeper order. These ordinary notions in fact appear in what is called the "explicate" or "unfolded" order, which is a special and
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