The Holographic paradigm and other paradoxes

This book is a series of articles that attempts to ‘break out into natural language’ meanings implicit in the formal mathematics of quantum mechanics. The whole materialistic, reductionist, logical positivist arc of western science has, at its greatest apex (quantum mechanics), seemingly given birth (from this viewpoint) to Rosemary’s Baby. According to this model life is a vast machine; meaning, once the parts are properly labeled and relationships between the parts adequately understood, all mysteries will be resolved and we will then live in a perfectly predictable world. This model seemingly reveals a self-assembling, blind process of trial and error within the framework of space/time. The problem here is that quantum mechanics thoroughly overturns the idea of mechanism along with its space/time infrastructure. I’ll let David Bohm, a physicist and colleague of Einsteins explain…

“The quantum theory…overturned mechanism…I’ll give here its three main features. First of all, all action was in the form of what is called discrete quanta. For example, one found that the orbits of electrons around the nucleus would have to be discrete, as there were no allowed orbits in between, and yet, somehow, the electron jumped from one to the other without passing in between—according to this view. And the light shown on these things was also shown in the form of quanta, and in fact, every form of connection of energy was in the form of quanta.