PREFACE: David Bohm’s theoretical work in modern physics inured in him a philosophical outlook that had much in common with that of Friedrich Nietzsche, who was also versed in modern physics principles through his familiarity with the prescient works of Roger Boscovich who’s ‘Theory of Natural Philosophy’ (175) has been described by modern physicists such as being “200 years ahead of its time”.  The following essay is a simulated dialogue between these two great thinkers who were on remarkably similar paths of discovery.  While Bohm was developing new ideas on the physics of how things actually function, Nietzsche’s “philosophizing with a hammer” oriented to the smashing of the persisting over-simplistic conceptualizations of Newtonian physics rooted in BINARY LOGIC.  We WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, as a social collective, remain in the Newtonian mindset based on belief in LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and developments and have in no way assimilated into our social collective, the understanding of the world that is common to Modern physics, indigenous aboriginal cultures, Taoism/Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta.  The Western World’s popular belief in a mechanistic substitute reality regulated by BINARY LOGIC persists while the modern physics understanding in terms of QUANTUM LOGIC (balance and imbalance) remains an outlier, as explored in this simulated dialogue between Bohm and Nietzsche.

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NOTE: “DOUBLE ERROR” refers to the practice of using the DOUBLE combination of NAMING and GRAMMAR to impute LOCAL AUTHORING as in Nietzsche’s example “Lightning flashes” where the Lightning IS the flashing which substitutes a LOCAL and EXPLICIT AUTHORING sense for that which is in reality NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT.  The combination of NAMING and GRAMMAR is used to ‘BREAK IN’ to the transforming relational continuum where the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT rule, and inject a SUBSTITUTE REALITY featuring LOCAL and EXPLICIT authoring agency.

 

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FRIEDRICH (Friedrich Nietzsche) and DAVID (David Bohm) enter into dialogue as follows;

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DAVID; You know, Friedrich, … I’ve had a hell of a time trying to share with people my ideas on how the European languages we use, such as English, are confusing our understanding, and by ‘our’, I mean the general understandings we European language based cultures have developed as a social collective.

 

FRIEDRICH: As you know DAVID, I share your concern here and I have expended much effort in trying the describe what ‘we are doing to ourselves’ with our language-induced confusion.  I made the point that we use a DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR to FALSELY impute to ourselves the notional POWERS of LOCAL AUTHORING actions and developments.  People have ‘read my words’ and comprehended my words, BUT HAVE NOT “EMBODIED” THE MEANING!

 

DAVID:  I know, I know!  I have made the point that we FRAGMENT reality by the way we use language.  My research in physics convinced me of the fluidity of reality, of the all-including WAVE-FIELD we share inclusion wherein THERE IS NO LOCAL AUTHORING but we have a language architecture that nevertheless has us constructing representations in which we are the LOCAL AUTHORS of ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENTS.  This puts us, psychologically, into an ALL-MALE pseudo-reality which is MISSING the FEMALE CONJUGATE that is inherent in our WAVE-FIELD reality.

 

FRIEDRICH:  Yes!  As you know, I attribute this one-sided reduction to EGO since EGO persuades us that WE ARE THE LOCAL AUTHORS of actions and developments, and of course this EXCLUSION of the role of the FEMALE, by designing a language that explains everything in one-sided MALE assertive terms, has led not only to our WESTERN CULTURE system of REWARDS and RECOGNITION for notional LOCALLY AUTHORED actions and developments, but also PUNISHMENT and DENIGRATION.

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