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Religion and science look at reality differently.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Looks
Reality
Science And Religion
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Space
Consciousness
Time And Space
Space And Time
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Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.
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Concept Of Time
Linear
Mean
Concept
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We take for granted how our mind puts everything together.
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Granted
Mind
Together
Puts
Take For Granted
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Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.
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Break
Consciousness
Linear
Stream
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Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.
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Aspect
Consciousness
Reality
Absolute
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Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals.
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Instinctual
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Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Consciousness
Probability
States
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In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Form
Song
Lyrics
Meaning
Sings
Takes
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Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Animal
Animal Life
Balanced
Law
Modern Science
Physics
Exist
Exactly
Explain
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Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.
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Determined
Mean
Reality
Fortunately
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Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Biology
Essentials
Roles
Attempts
Nowhere
Essential
Recognize
Remain
Unify
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The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Existence
Law
Spectrum
Biological
Structured
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Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Amazing
Science
Add
Consciousness
Equations
Puzzles
Actually
Amazingly
Biggest
Equation
Explain
Some
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We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Change
Mind
Policy
President Bush
Waiting
Breakthroughs
Bush
Change Time Mind
Wait
Missed
Result
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Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.
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Relationships
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Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Different
Physics
Probability
Range
Observations
Predicted
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I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Technology
Children
Scientist
Thinking
Advocate
Announced
Generate
Planet
Reputable
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For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and for life to begin.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Bangs
Example
Powerful
Begin
Bang
Big Bang
Billion
For Example
Galaxies
Rushed
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When science tries to resolve its conflicts by adding and subtracting dimensions to the Universe like houses on a Monopoly board, we need to examine our dogmas.
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Dimensions
Monopoly
Resolve
Adding
Board
Conflicts
Examine
Houses
Tries
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That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Experiments
Law
Long
Opposites
Physics
Opposite
Absolutely
Accident
Addition
Correct
List
Long List
Suggest
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Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Existence
Influence
Reality
Creature
Further
Time Reality Living
Influences
Perceived
Unless
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We are more than the sum of our biochemical functions. Even the tiniest flea is an incredibly complex living creature, with mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of your cat or dog.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Adapted
Blood
Cat
Feeding
Biochemical
Creature
Complex
Flea
Functions
Incredibly
Sum
Tiniest
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We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.
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Continuing
Entity
Extensions
Hypothetical
Mathematical
Protect
Assign
Entities
Failed
Observable
Properties
Speculative
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We're living through a paradigm shift. People are going to look back at us and say, 'They used to cut people's legs off.' Then they'll just give an injection and the blood flow will be restored and the limb saved.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Blood
Flow
Legs
Paradigm
Saved
Look People Will
Cut
Limb
Restored
Shift
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The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves.
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Deeper
Understood
Distant
Farther
Fully
Galaxies
Involves
Peer
Selves
Spiral
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We have these words 'space' and 'time,' but you can't touch them. They're not objects, they're not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize and construct information.
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Animal
Organize
Perception
Tools
Construct
Space And Time
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Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete imagery; and that relative to the supreme creator, we humans are much like the microorganisms we scrutinize under the microscope.
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Clever
Concrete
Creator
Humans
Imagery
Relative
Scrutinize
Supreme
Microscope
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Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Space
Brain
Computer
Consciousness
Entering
Neurons
Together
Woven
Automatically
Space Time Together
Impulses
Nerve
Proteins
Space And Time
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Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease conditions, including diabetes, strokes, cancer, AIDS, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.
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Alzheimer's
Cancer
Disease
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As children we were bombarded by competing answers. Church says one thing, school another. Now as adults it's no surprise that if we discuss the nature of it all, we generally spout some combination of the two, depending on our individual inclination and mood.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Bombarded
Combination
Competing
Inclination
Mood
Surprise
Depending
Discuss
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When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Animal
Bits
Clock
Discrete
Kitchen
Next
Nothingness
Perceive
Probability
Senses
Smell
Chicken
Dishwasher
Longer
Room
Seemingly
Sounds
Ticking
Waves
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So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Space
Consciousness
Existence
Instance
Law
Point Of View
Views
Life Time Space
Depend
Explains
Life Space Time
Observer
Properties
Space And Time
Tuned
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Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.
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All Things
Flying
Indifferent
Islands
Physics
Preoccupation
Purpose
Above
Absurdly
Relentlessly
Beneath
Island
Swift
Theories
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Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time.
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Future
Science
Space
Able
Different
Evolve
Imagine
Information
Logic
Reality
Time Space Science
Begin
Time Future Space
Based
Construct
Correspond
Create
Future Science Space
Ours
Realities
Sometime
Space And Time
Systems
Universes
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So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We've also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Blood
Cells
Exciting Things
Feet
Flow
Laboratory
Pipeline
Red
Someday
Tubes
Amputated
Entire
Foot
Leg
Near
Restore
Scratch
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Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.
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Consciousness
Pursued
Reality
Special
Subjective
Views
Vast
Entire
Entire Life
Fails
Fundamental
Material
Physical
Properties
Recognize
Relates
Revolves
View
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In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Technology
Cells
Engineering
Growing Up
Organs
Stem
Stem Cell
Accident
Skin
Auto
Cell
Combine
Grow Up
Sometime
Suggest
Tissue
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I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we're, scientists have been building from one side of nature (physics) without considering the other side (life in consciousness). Neither side exists without the other. They cannot be divorced from one another or else there is no reality.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Space
Consciousness
Divorced
Physics
Reality
Thinking
External
Life Nature Time
Exists
Neither
Scientists
Space And Time
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The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Animal
Billions
Bubbles
Existence
Individual
Our Planet
Reality
Spheres
Taught
Universe
Way
Bursts
Each
Each Individual
Generate
Individual Human
Perhaps
Planet
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I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of times in all sorts of ways that no physicist really questions the end point. I think that these experiments are very clearly telling us that consciousness is limitless and the ultimate reality.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Consciousness
Experiments
Limitless
Physicist
Reality
Starting
Thinking
Ultimate
Way
Questions
Carried
Hundreds
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