Dentist this morning and tomorrow morning for you to fill two very small cavities. Lunch today was at Victory’s Bakery and Grill. You both had shish kabobs, a beef for Carol and a chicken for yourself. Excellent! You will be back. You also picked up a Greek salad to go for supper and two Greek desserts. You split one and will split the other after supper. You discovered the place looking at West Chester restaurants in the UrbanSpoon app. Great reviews for the place even though it only has four tables for dining. Next time you will probably take out. One of the reviews that struck you was “New York City needs a place like this.”
It was fun to try a new place for a change. We lucked out with Victory Bakery and Grill. The owner is friendly and for a different New York Jewish deli sort of ambiance the television was on a non-English Egyptian news channel. I will have to write a review.
In scene six Merlyn and Arthur continue their conversation in the evening after Arthur bungles in his courage to see Guinevere. We need to set some coordinates on Avalon, at least the area around Leed’s Castle. No Greek bar and grill like in Elysium. They sit across from one another along the far end of a long wooden table sipping on ale and snacking on hand torn pieces of a small loaf of crusty brown bread. Each periodically dips a finger piece of the brown bread into a small bowl of what look like the leftovers of steak and kidney pie. This is how the food appears and tastes to the two even though from an outsider’s perspective the eating experience may easily be an adventure in voice, pantomime and individual memory.
Carol is cooking Alta’s Arizona turkey soup for supper and you have not done your exercises today. Later, dude. Post. - Amorella
After twenty-two hundred hours. You just finished watching a DVRed show called “Touch” and find it intriguing. Why is that? – Amorella
After watching the show I checked out a few reviews online and found that the thesis of “Touch” relates to works by David Bohm. Here is what Wikipedia has to say about the subject (not the TV show).
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Edited Selections from the Wikipedia article:
According to David Bohm’s theory, implicate and explicate orders are characterised by:
In the enfolded [or implicate] order, space and time are no longer the dominant factors determining the relationships of dependence or independence of different elements. Rather, an entirely different sort of basic connection of elements is possible, from which our ordinary notions of space and time, along with those of separately existent material particles, are abstracted as forms derived from the deeper order. These ordinary notions in fact appear in what is called the "explicate" or "unfolded" order, which is a special and distinguished form contained within the general totality of all the implicate orders (Bohm 1980, p. xv).
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A common grounding for consciousness and matter
The implicate order represents the proposal of a general metaphysical concept in terms of which it is claimed that matter and consciousness might both be understood, in the sense that it is proposed that both matter and consciousness: (i) enfold the structure of the whole within each region, and (ii) involve continuous processes of enfoldment and unfoldment. For example, in the case of matter, entities such as atoms may represent continuous enfoldment and unfoldment which manifests as a relatively stable and autonomous entity that can be observed to follow a relatively well-defined path in space-time. In the case of consciousness, Bohm pointed toward evidence presented by Karl Pribram that memories may be enfolded within every region of the brain rather than being localized (for example in particular regions of the brain, cells, or atoms).
Bohm went on to say:
As in our discussion of matter in general, it is now necessary to go into the question of how in consciousness the explicate order is what is manifest ... the manifest content of consciousness is based essentially on memory, which is what allows such content to be held in a fairly constant form. Of course, to make possible such constancy it is also necessary that this content be organized, not only through relatively fixed association but also with the aid of the rules of logic, and of our basic categories of space, time causality, universality, etc. ... there will be a strong background of recurrent stable, and separable features, against which the transitory and changing aspects of the unbroken flow of experience will be seen as fleeting impressions that tend to be arranged and ordered mainly in terms of the vast totality of the relatively static and fragmented content of [memories].
Bohm also claimed that "as with consciousness, each moment has a certain explicate order, and in addition it enfolds all the others, though in its own way. So the relationship of each moment in the whole to all the others is implied by its total content: the way in which it 'holds' all the others enfolded within it". Bohm characterises consciousness as a process in which at each moment, content that was previously implicate is presently explicate, and content which was previously explicate has become implicate.
One may indeed say that our memory is a special case of the process described above, for all that is recorded is held enfolded within the brain cells and these are part of matter in general. The recurrence and stability of our own memory as a relatively independent sub-totality is thus brought about as part of the very same process that sustains the recurrence and stability in the manifest order of matter in general. It follows, then, that the explicate and manifest order of consciousness is not ultimately distinct from that of matter in general.
Wikipedia – Implicate and explicate order according to David Bohm
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The above is what is of interest as it seems to be the groundwork of the basis for the plot of “Touch”. I have an example of this in a work of art by William Blake:
Ancient of Days
The above work by Blake represents, to me, the essence of the selected words in the above Wikipedia article on implicate and explicate order but without the words. I ‘understand’ a connected ‘truth’ between the article and the painting. I sense this connection in my heartansoulanmind not my mind alone. Heartansoulanmind in this context is ‘discovered’ by my freed consciousness within.
The above is your attempt at a response to my question: “You just finished watching a DVRed show called “Touch” and find it intriguing. Why is that?” – Post, orndorff. - Amorella 
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