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i found more ----- Original Message ----- From: "rayilynlee" <[log in to unmask]> To: "parkinsn" <[log in to unmask]> 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 > [log in to unmask] > > 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. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn