This Cosmic Knower, the *Player of the Cosmic Process,* is pure energy. It is intelligent. It is conscious. It is a Person. And this Player is also creative!

Considering cosmic creativity, Bohm introduces a new concept in which he describes the Implicate Order as a kind of *generative order.* He notes that “This order is primarily concerned not with the outward side of development, and evolution in a sequence of successions, but with a deeper and more inward order out of which the manifest form of things can emerge *creatively.*”

Bohm believes that the generative order “proceeds from an origin in free play which then unfolds into ever more crystallized forms.” Generative order can be seen in the work of an artist. Bohm uses the example of Mandelbrot’s mathematically-derived fractals to illustrate more scientifically this cosmic generativity. “Fractals involve an order of similar differences which include changes of scale as well as other possible changes.” Bohm notes that “By choosing different base figures and generators, but each time applying the generator on a smaller and smaller scale, Mandelbrot is able to produce a great variety of shapes and figures—All are filled with infinitesimal detail and are evocative of the types of complexity found in natural forms.”