Every cell is an intelligent organism. You can remove it from the body, put it into a Petri dish and it will manage its own life: handle the environment, grow, reproduce and form communities with other cells. In the human body we are dealing with a vast community of cells working together in harmony. In a culture dish, cells behave as individual entities.

Second Floor: Energy Physics
A century ago, a group of creative minorities launched a radical new view of how the universe works. Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg, among others, formulated new theories concerning the underlying mechanics of the universe. Their work on quantum mechanics revealed that the universe is not an assembly of physical parts as suggested by Newtonian physics but is derived from a holistic entanglement of immaterial energy waves.

Quantum mechanics shockingly reveals that there is no true “physicality” in the universe; atoms are made of focused vortices of energy - miniature tornados that are constantly popping into and out of existence. Atoms as energy fields interact with the full spectrum of invisible energy fields that comprise the universe, intimately entangled with one another and the field in which they are immersed.

For over four hundred years, Western civilization has chosen science as its source of truths and wisdom about the mysteries of life. Allegorically, we may picture the wisdom of the universe as resembling a large mountain. We scale the mountain as we acquire knowledge. Our drive to reach the top of that mountain is fueled by the notion that with knowledge we may become “masters” of our universe. Conjure the image of the all-knowing guru seated atop the mountain.

Consciousness, once a topic alluded to only by philosophers and, occasionally, theologians, has - in the past 20 years or so - migrated into the domain of science and rational analysis. But this does not mean to say that conscious experience is now understood in the way that we understand other natural phenomena that were once attributed to otherworldly causes - earthquakes or solar eclipses, for example.

On the contrary, consciousness remains one of the major unsolved problems in science. But science and scientists are gradually becoming able and willing to tackle this phenomenon, to ask pertinent questions, and to use the newly available technology to carry out decisive experiments.