Quantum Implications: Essays in Honour of

b /b b i Quantum Implications /i /b is dedicated to David Bohm, his work, and the issues raised by his ideas. The contributors span a wide range of disciplines including physics, philosophy, mathematics, psychology, biology, and art, and they include some of the most distinguished scientists of the day and number three Nobel laureates among them. br br b Contributors: /b Y. Aharonov, D. Albert, J. S. Bell, David Bohm, John Briggs, G. F. Chew, T. D. Clark, Bernard d'Espagnat, C. Dewdney, Yves Elskens, Richard P. Feynman, David Finkelstein, Alan Ford, F. A. M. Frescura, H. Frohlich, Gordon G. Globus, Eugene P. Gross, Basil J. Hiley, P. R. Holland, C. W. Kilmister, A. Kyprianidis, A. J. Leggett, F. David Peat, Roger Penrose, David Pines, C. Philippidis, K. H. Pribram, Ilya Prigogine, Robert Rosen, David Shainberg, Henry P. Stapp, Montague Ullman, J.-P. Vigier, Renee Weber, M. H. F. Wilkins.

General Introduction: the Development of David Bohm's Ideas from the Plasma to the Implicate Order	p. 1
Hidden Variables and the Implicate Order	p. 33
Collective Variables in Elementary Quantum Mechanics	p. 46
The Collective Description of Particle Interactions: from Plasmas to the Helium Liquids	p. 66
Reflections on the Quantum Measurement Paradox	p. 85
References	p. 104
Quantum Physics and Conscious Thought	p. 105
Macroscopic Quantum Objects	p. 121
References	p. 149
Meaning and Being in Contemporary Physics	p. 151
Causal Particle Trajectories and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics	p. 169
Irreversibility, Stochasticity and Non-Locality in Classical Dynamics	p. 205
The Issue of Retrodiction in Bohm's Theory	p. 224
Beables for Quantum Field Theory	p. 227
Negative Probability	p. 235
Gentle Quantum Events as the Source of Explicate Order	p. 249
References	p. 254
Light as Foundation of Being	p. 255
The Automorphism Group of C4	p. 267
References	p. 277
Some Spinor Implications Unfolded	p. 278
All is Flux	p. 289
References	p. 294
Anholonomic Deformations in the Ether: a Significance for the Electrodynamic Potentials	p. 295
Can Biology Accommodate Laws Beyond Physics?	p. 312
Some Epistemological Issues in Physics and Biology	p. 314
References	p. 327
A Science of Qualities	p. 328
Complementarity and the Union of Opposites	p. 338
References	p. 360
Category Theory and Family Resemblances	p. 361
The Implicate Brain	p. 365
Three Holonomic Approaches to the Brain	p. 372
References	p. 384
Wholeness and Dreaming	p. 386
Vortices of Thought in the Implicate Order and Their Release in Meditation and Dialogue	p. 396
Reflectaphors: the (implicate) Universe as a Work of Art	p. 414
Meaning as Being in the Implicate Order Philosophy of David Bohm: a Conversation	p. 436
Index	p. 451
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