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Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 8:56 PM
Subject: More on Lanza's biocentrism


> Advanced Cell scientist presents view of life
>
> By Lisa Eckelbecker TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
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> WORCESTER- Forget what you think you know about the universe.
>
> Scientist and author Dr. Robert P. Lanza, the vice president of medical
> and scientific development at Advanced Cell Technology Inc., has posited a
> view of life built around the concept of "biocentrism" that he believes
> will answer all those difficult questions that keep physicists and
> existentialists up at night.
> In short, it's all about biology.
> Of course, there's more to it than that - enough to fill a 16-page article
> in The American Scholar, a quarterly publication of the Phi Beta Kappa
> Society, with the argument that nothing exists unless we humans perceive
> it.
>
> For Dr. Lanza, who is probably best known for his work in the
> controversial field of embryonic stem cells, his theory of the universe is
> the work of a lifetime.
>
> As a child who turned over stones to see what crawled beneath, he said, he
> decided "it was very clear that every creature had its own world."
>
> As a physics student, he chafed at the notion of a static universe willing
> to give up its secrets if humans could just come up with the right
> mathematical formula.
>
> And as a stem cell researcher in Worcester for California-based ACT, he
> noted that the fastest thing stems cells do in a laboratory dish is make
> neurons.
>
> "It's almost like they're the most fundamental thing, or one of the most
> important things coming from an embryonic stem cell, and probably for good
> reason," Dr. Lanza said. "The sense of perception and the nervous system
> are the building blocks of reality."
>
> The search for a unifying scientific theory of space and time is nothing
> new. It gnawed at Albert Einstein. Stephen Hawking has suggested that we
> may have answers in the next two decades.
>
> However, Dr. Lanza argues that physicists, with their examination of weird
> phenomena, such as subatomic particles that change behavior depending on
> whether anyone observes them, don't have it quite right. The point isn't
> ever-more-complex quantum mechanics theories about how the universe was
> created to produce us, according to Dr. Lanza.
>
> "The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as
> we have been taught," he writes. "For each life there is a universe, its
> own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of
> existence. Our planet is comprised by billions of spheres of reality,
> generated by each individual human and perhaps by each animal."
>
> Dr. Lanza said this week that he expects opposition to his view,
> particularly from physicists. But he also thinks his theory illuminates a
> pursuit that has stumbled through murkiness.
>
> "We're right in the midst of a major transformation in our world view,"
> Dr. Lanza said. "I think this article completes that transformation."
> Dr. Lanza's article, "A New Theory of the Universe," is available online
> at www.theamericanscholar.org.
>
>

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