Elusive Consciousness

Author(s): Narendra Bhandari, Surendrasingh Pokharana, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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form contained within the general totality of all the implicate order (Bohm, 1980).
In Bohm's concept of order, then, primacy is given to the undivided whole, and the implicate order inherent within the whole, rather than in parts of the whole, such as particles, quantum states, and continua. For Bohm, the "whole" encompasses all things, structures, abstractions and processes, including processes that result in (relatively) stable structures as well as those that involve metamorphosis of structures or things. In this view, parts may be entities normally regarded as physical, such as atoms or subatomic particles, but they may also be abstract entities, such as quantum states. Whatever their nature and character, these parts are considered in terms of the whole, and in such terms, they constitute relatively autonomous and independent "sub-totalities". The implication of the view is, therefore, that nothing is entirely separate or autonomous.
This implicate order of quantum mechanics as interpreted by David Bohm appears to be close to the Indian concept of consciousness and the concept of reality in particular. This is also very close to the concept of Keval Jnana (absolute knowledge) as described in Jainism that is when one acquires keval jnana, all other types of knowledge disappear, and only absolute knowledge is left, which is in agreement with what Bohm is mentioning. Of course this is an indicative first cut similarity between the two concepts and it needs more research.
Appendix 3. Can soul be an entity for which causality is neither obeyed nor violated.
In order to explain, the concept of soul in Indian philosophy, Pokharna (1985) has introduced an abstract entity for which causality is neither obeyed nor violated. This is an entity for which causality is neither obeyed nor violated. The principle of causality implies that for every effect there is at least one definite cause behind it(or a large number of causes behind it) and every effect, in turn becomes a cause of some other effect. In sequence of events, cause must temporally precede the effect. When we say that causality is violated then it can have the following two different meanings :(i) when the causality is violated then this can mean that temporally the role of cause and effect has been reversed so that first we have an effect and then there is a cause. This is the situation believed to be existing in the case of tachyons (particles moving faster than light). They are assumed to be moving backward in time so it is said that causality is violated by tachyons.(ii) Violation of causality can