Wholeness is implicate order

Christopher Alexander had a conversation with David Bohm in 1988. Bohm told Alexander that, in his mind, the wholeness defined in The Nature of Order: Book 1 essentially is the same structure that which he calls the implicate order.^1,2

Whether Bohm’s idea is true or not, the mathematics of quantum mechanics asserts that particles are physically affected by the wholeness of the space in which they move. Wholeness, either as defined by Alexander, or in some other sense, governs the structure of reality.³

Notes:
1. Christopher Alexander, The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe, Book 1 – The Phenomenon of Life, p. 10.
2. Ibid., p. 467.
3. Ibid..