pylkkänen has worked and published together with theoretical physicist basil hiley, a close co-worker of david bohm over three decades. hiley and pylkkänen together addressed the question of the relation between mind and matter by the hypothesis of an "active information" within the conceptual framework of the de broglie–bohm theory. pylkkänen's work "mind, matter and the implicate order" (2007) builds upon david bohm's ontological interpretation of quantum theory, in which quantum processes are understood as a holomovement in terms of implicate and explicate orders.