Taking my cue from the previous posting where the implicate order is seen as the basis of life one feels that this basis has an abstract quality. The pervading materiality of contemporary life, nevertheless, has obscured this and most would smirk at the notion of abstraction since everything seems so concrete around them. But what do we mean exactly by the abstraction of life?
Firstly, if one considers quarks, electrons, atoms, cells which are in a constant process of replacement - according to Bohm continuously unfolding into the explicate order and enfolding back to the implicate order - one realises that our bodies are waves of energy and energy is, of course, abstract. Furthermore, the DNA, the basis of organic life, is also part of this process since the essence of it is not found in the visible reality of the known elements of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and the few others which constitute the bricks of life. This essence is enfolded in the coded pattern of the above elements which carries the message of life. This pattern has a parallel in music where the notes themselves are meaningless if they are not composed into coherent melodies. In the same way the DNA is the music score which creates the melodies of life.
An overall effect of the above could be that the essence of life is elusive since everything evolves in the spiral process of the holomovement. That is why there can never be an ultimate theory which explains everything. Can there ever be the ultimate poem which makes all the others redundant?
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