The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us
with an entirely new way of understanding organization and
order. For most of its history, Western science has
labored under the bias that the best way to understand a
physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom, is to
dissect it and study its respective parts.
A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe
may not lend themselves to this approach. If we try to
take apart something constructed holographically, we will
not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only get
smaller wholes.
This insight suggested to Bohm another way of
understanding Aspect's discovery. Bohm believes the
reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact
with one another regardless of the distance separating
them is not because they are sending some sort of
mysterious signal back and forth, but because their
separateness is an illusion. He argues that at some deeper
level of reality such particles are not individual entities, but
are actually extensions of the same fundamental something.