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I think that the group has raised a lot of great questions, and I like Anne and Bharath's comments here about the I Ching, etc. -- there is lots to ponder, I see. We still have some major issues, though: first, we are talking about the emergence of form -- so, is there form? We saw in Grobstein's session how the brain takes external noise and resolves it into images and meaning. But what is the nature of that noise? And if it's noise, then it doesn't really have form, or does it? Second, where did our brain's resolution mechanism come from? Sure, it could have come from evolutionary processes, but where did those come from if "all is noise".

More directly, I am interested in our addressing a question related to what Bohm talked about: the implicit versus the explicit order, which is kind of what Grobstein's presentation talked about, and what the I Ching inclines toward. What's the real structure of reality? What is the implicit order? If we found it, would its form surprise us? Is reality quite different from our perception of it?