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- From: shaman@cix.compulink.co.uk (Leo Smith)
- Subject: Re: MINDWALKING Buddhists, oh my!
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 10:24:00 +0000
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- In-Reply-To: <Dec.27.21.19.19.1992.5601@ruhets.rutgers.edu> farris@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Lorenzo Farris)
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- For what its worth, I think Bohm's ideas can be summarised VERY
- crudely thuswise:-
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- IF you want a deterministic universe AND you want a unified theory of
- physics THEN you have to postulate some form of underlying structure
- which has the property that 'physical reality' is merely a minor part
- of a larger whole. Bohm gave some braod outlines as to the sort of
- structure that would be required to explain quantum effects.
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- That is, the assumptions that underly conventional physics lead to an
- extrordinarily complex and unusual view of time space and matter if
- taken to their LOGICAL CONCLUSIONS.
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- You may either deduce from that that the world is indeed a strange
- and mysterious place, or if you are more of the Occam persuasion,
- that the underlying assumptions of conventional physics are
- inappropriate tools for subatomic analysis.
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- :-)
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