Editing Implicate and explicate order (section)

=== Ink droplet analogy ===
Bohm also used the term ''unfoldment'' to characterise processes in which the explicate order becomes relevant (or "relevated").  Bohm likens unfoldment also to the decoding of a television [[signal processing|signal]] to produce a sensible [[image]] on a [[Television|screen]].  The signal, screen, and television electronics in this analogy represent the implicate order, while the image produced represents the explicate order.  He also uses an example in which an ink droplet can be introduced into a highly [[viscous]] [[Chemical substance|substance]] (such as [[glycerine]]), and the substance rotated very slowly, such that there is negligible [[diffusion]] of the substance.  In this example, the droplet becomes a thread, which in turn eventually becomes invisible.  However, by rotating the substance in the reverse direction, the droplet can essentially reform.  When it is invisible, according to Bohm, the order of the ink droplet as a pattern can be said to be ''implicate'' within the substance.

In another analogy, Bohm asks us to consider a pattern produced by making small cuts in a folded piece of paper and then, literally, unfolding it.  Widely separated elements of the pattern are, in actuality, produced by the same original cut in the folded piece of paper.  Here, the cuts in the folded paper represent the implicate order, and the unfolded pattern represents the explicate order.