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The Alien universe spreads across a wide variety of mediums, but the most prominent are the films. Refresh yourself on the first three films before hopping into Alien: Isolation!
Warning! SPOILERS for the first three Alien films below!
The movie that started it all. Starring Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, the film takes place on a space craft named the
that was sent into the depths of space to mine ore. On their way back to Earth, the ship stops by a planetoid to find the source of a transmission. There they discover alien eggs and eventually let lose the
into the ship. The rest of the films deals with the crew of seven trying to survive with a killer alien on board.
By the end of the film, the Alien has killed off everyone except Ripley and Jones the cat. The two make it onto an escape shuttle and take off. Ripley realizes the Alien is on the shuttle and devises a way to get rid of it by opening the door and sucking the Alien out into space. Ripley returns to her stasis and sets a course back home as the sole survivor of the Nostromo.Spoiler - Click to see/hide
After 57 years of drifting through space, Ripley is discovered in her stasis aboard the escape shuttle. In the time that she was gone, a group has set up a new colony on the same planetoid where the Nostromo first came in contact with the Alien species. Because of her account of the Alien, Ripley is brought on as an adviser on a mission to discover why this new colony has lost contact with the ship. There they discover the entire colony wiped out, save for Newt, a young girl who hid in the vents.
By the end of the film, the only remaining members of the crew are Ripley, Newt, Hicks, and Bishop. After rescuing Newt from the Alien queen, Ripley destroys all the Alien eggs, enraging the queen. After an epic fight with the queen, the survivors get onto another escape shuttle and enter a stasis for a safe trip back.Spoiler - Click to see/hide
A deleted scene shows Ripley being shown a photo of her now deceased daughter, Amanda Ripley. Amanda, shown in a photograph at the age of sixty-two, died two years prior to the finding of Ripley.Spoiler - Click to see/hide
Of course, things never work out for Ripley. The escape shuttle from the second film crashes into a remote planet with an ore refinery. Again, Ripley is the only survivor. Ripley awakes in a prison colony where she waits for a way back to her company ship. Ripley soon discovers that some of the prisoners are being killed similarly to the way her crew in the original film were killed off.
It turns out that the reason the escape shuttle crashed in the first place was because there was a stowaway Alien aboard. Worse, Ripley discovers that an Alien queen embryo is growing within her. To save the remaining survivors and humanity, Ripley sacrifices herself by dropping into a giant furnace.Spoiler - Click to see/hide
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CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER OF OCATA THERAPEUTICS (formerly Advanced Cell Technology)
We think our destiny is to journey to Mars and beyond. Yet as we build our spacecraft, we&re about to be broadsided & from a different direction & by the most explosive event in history.
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.
Immanuel Kant declared in 1781 that space and time were real, but only indeed as properties of the mind. These algorithms are not only the key to consciousness, but why space and time & indeed the properties of matter itself & are relative to the observer. But a new theory called biocentrism suggests that space and time may not be the only tools that can be used to construct reality. At present, our destiny is to live and die in the everyday world of up and down. But what if, for example, we changed the algorithms so that instead of time being linear, it was 3-dimensional like space? Consciousness would move through the multiverse. We&d be able to walk through time just like we walk through space. And after creeping along for 4 billion years, life would finally figure out how to escape from its corporeal cage. Our destiny would lie in realities that exist outside of the known physical universe.
Even science fiction is struggling with the implications. In &Avatar,& human consciousness is infused into blue aliens that inhabit a wondrous world. However, according to biocentrism, replicating human intelligence or consciousness will require the same kind of algorithms for employing time and space that we enjoy. Everything we experience is a whirl of information occurring in our heads. Time is simply the summation of spatial states & much like the frames in a film & occurring inside the mind. It&s just our way of making sense of things. There&s also a peculiar intangibility to space. We can&t pick it up and bring it to the laboratory. Like time, space isn&t an external object. It&s part of the mental software that molds information into multidimensional objects.
We take for granted how our mind puts everything together. When I woke up this morning, I was in the middle of a dream that seemed as real as everyday life. I remember looking out over a crowded port with people in the foreground. Further out, there were ships engaged in battle. And still further out to sea was a battleship with radar antenna going around. My mind had somehow created this spatio-temporal experience out of electrochemical information. I could even feel the pebbles under my feet, merging this 3D world with my &inner& sensations. Life as we know it is defined by this spatial-temporal logic, which traps us in the universe with which we&re familiar. Like my dream, the experimental results of quantum theory confirm that the properties of particles in the &real& world are also observer-determined.
Loren Eiseley once wrote: &While I was sitting one night with a poet friend watching a great opera performed in a tent under arc lights, the poet took my arm and pointed silently. Far up, blundering out of the night, a huge Cecropia moth swept past from light to light over the posturings of the actors. &He doesn&t know,& my friend whispered excitedly. &He&s passing through an alien universe brightly lit but invisible to him. He& he doesn&t see us. He doesn&t know. Maybe it&s happening right now to us.&&
Like the moth, we can&t see beyond the footlights. The universe is just life&s launching-pad. But it won&t be rockets that take us the next step. The long-sought Theory of Everything was merely missing a component that was too close for us to have noticed. Some of the thrill that came with the announcement that the human genome had been mapped or the idea that we&re close to understanding the Big Bang rests in our innate human desire for completeness and totality. But most of these comprehensive theories fail to take into account one crucial factor: We&re creating them. It’s the biological creature that fashions the stories, that makes the observations, and that gives names to things. And therein lies the great expanse of our oversight, that until now, science hasn&t confronted the one thing that&s at once most familiar and most mysterious & consciousness.
Reality is simply an information system that involves our consciousness. Until we understand ourselves, we will continue to blunder from light to light, unable to discern the great play that blazes under the opera tent.
(BenBella Books) lay out Lanza’s theory of everything.
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Further Reading
“Beyond Biocentrism is an enlightening and fascinating journey that will forever alter your understanding of your own existence.”&Deepak Chopra
“Beyond Biocentrism is a joyride through the history of science and cutting-edge physics, all with a very serious purpose: to find the long-overlooked connection between the conscious self and the universe around us.”&Corey Powell, ex editor-in-chief, Discover magazine
“Will machines ever achieve consciousness? Are plants aware? Is death an illusion? These are some of the big questions tackled in Beyond Biocentrism, which serves up a new, biology-based theory of everything that is as delightful to read as it is fascinating.”&Pamela Weintraub, ex editor-in-chief of OMNI Magazine
Biocentrism takes you on a seemingly improbable but ultimately inescapable journey through a foreign universe-our own-from the viewpoints of an acclaimed biologist and a leading astronomer. It will shatter your ideas of life-time and space, and even death&you will never see reality the same again.&“Like “A Brief History of Time” it is indeed stimulating and brings biology into the whole. Any short statement does not do justice to such a scholarly work& Most importantly, it makes you think.”&Nobel Prize Winner E. Donnall Thomas
Dr. Robert Lanza selected for the 2014 TIME 100 list of the hundred most influential
people in the world, along with Pope Francis, Robert Redford, and other artists, pioneers, leaders, titans and icons.
Lanza Featured in Fortune Magazine
“…he’s the standard-bearer for stem cell research”
“Lanza published a paper in The Lancet earlier this year detailing the results of early clinical trials involving two women suffering from macular degeneration. A UCLA ophthalmologist
injected each woman with 50,000 retinal cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, and according to the paper, both claim to have better vision as a result. They’re not 20/20. But after a single injection one now walks the mall alone, uses her computer, and can pour a cup of coffee. The other sees colors and can read five letters on the eye chart. If Lanza is remembered one day as the man who saved millions from blindness, his story will provide a ready-made biopic for Ben Affleck. Born in the hardscrabble town of Roxbury and raised by a professional gambler, he escaped the economic underclass through intelligence and imagination. At 13, he altered the DNA of a chicken to
the experiment was published in Nature. His sisters never graduated from high school. He received an MD from Penn and a Fulbright scholarship, and has collaborated with giants, including B.F. Skinner and Jonas Salk. He was the first ever to clone an endangered species, and now he’s the standard-bearer for stem cell research.”
Lanza Named One of the Top 50 "World Thinkers"
Dr. Lanza selected as one of Prospect Magazine’s “World Thinkers 2015.” The thinkers were chosen for “engaging in original and profound ways with the central questions of the world today,” as well as for their continuing significance for “this year’s biggest questions” (in economics, science, philosophy, cultural and social criticism and in politics).
Lanza Considered One of the Fathers of Applied Stem Cell Biology
“Robert Lanza is widely acknowledged as one of the fathers of the field of applied stem cell biology.”&&– Mark S Blumenkranz, MD, MMSHJ Smead Professor, Stanford University, and Trustee, Brown University
Robert Lanza Featured in Financial Times
Professionally, Lanza works at the cutting edge of human discovery, but the majority of his domestic space looks like a museum from a bygone era.
Lanza featured in the 2013 “TOP 50 Global Stem Cell Influencers.” It is the result of a global survey of the stem cell community, which yielded thousands of votes. The 50 personalities were picked based on their career achievements whether this was groundbreaking discovery and research, innovation, or lifetime dedication. Lanza was among the top four on the list, alongside James Thomson and Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka.
The Dawning of a New Era of Hope
Stem cell researcher Robert Lanza hopes to save thousands of lives — and for a long time this caused him to fear for his own& At the time, a doctor was threatened at a nearby fertility clinic, and a pipe bomb exploded at a bio lab in Boston. “Back then I thought that there was probably a 50-50 chance that I was going to get knocked off because I was so visible,” says the doctor. “I said, okay, try to kill me — I’m still going to do what I think is right.”
In Lanza’s case, doing what is “right” involves working with therapies based on human stem cells. The b the paraly the hemophiliac shall not bleed anymore. That may sound like something out of the Bible, but Lanza is no faith healer. In fact, the US business magazine Fortune called him “the standard-bearer for stem cell research.” Lanza is often compared to the main character played by Matt Damon in the film “Good Will Hunting,” a highly talented outsider who, like Lanza, comes from a humble background.
Initial Success: “We have some surprisingly good visual outcome,” says Steven Schwartz, an eye surgeon at UCLA. He says that one of his patients can read a clock again and go shopping, while another can recognize colors again. Lanza is a “genius” and his work is “stellar,” Schwartz says.
Robert Lanza featured on &Live to be 150, Can You Do It?&.
by ABC News
Growing new body parts, reversing paralysis, stretching the limits of the human life span: This trailblazing stem cell researcher believes it is all within our reach.
Discover Magazine
BIOCE***ISM
How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
&Like “A Brief History of Time” it is indeed stimulating and brings biology into the whole. Any short statement does not do justice to such a scholarly work. Almost every society of mankind has explained the mystery of our surroundings and being by invoking a god or group of gods. Scientists work to acquire objective answers from the infinity of space or the inner machinery of the atom. Lanza proposes a biocentrist theory which ascribes the answer to the observer rather than the observed. The work is a scholarly consideration of science and philosophy that brings biology into the central role in unifying the whole. The book will appeal to an audience of many different disciplines because it is a new way of looking at the old problem of our existence. Most importantly, it makes you think.&
&&&&&&Nobel Prize Winner E. Donnall Thomas
BEYOND BIOCE***ISM
Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death
Biocentrism shocked the world with a radical rethinking of the nature of reality & but that was just the beginning.
The Biocentric Universe Theory: Stem-cell guru Robert Lanza presents a radical new view of the universe and everything in it.
Discover Magazine
Lanza&s team cloned the first human embryo. How American scientists made history by creating lifesaving embryos cells.
U.S. News & World Report
Endangered Species Cloned
Robert Lanza Receives Award for Eye-Opening Work on Embryonic Stem Cells
Wired Magazine
Send in the Clones. Biologist Robert Lanza has a plan to help endangered species fight extinction.
People Magazine
Biologists have developed a technique for establishing colonies of human embryonic stem cells from an early human embryo without destroying it.
New York Times
Stem Cell Test Tried on Mice Saves Embryo. Technique Could Shift Debate on Humans.
New York Times
A New Theory of the Universe: Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by adding life to the equation.
The American Scholar
Seven Days of Creation. The inside story of a human cloning experiment.
Wired Magazine
U.S. News & World Report Cover Story
“…his mentors described him [Lanza] as a “genius,” a “renegade” thinker, even likening him to Einstein.”
“Robert Lanza is the living embodiment of the character played by Matt Damon in the movie Good Will Hunting. Growing up underprivileged in Stoughton, Mass., south of Boston, the young preteen caught the attention of Harvard Medical School researchers when he showed up on the university steps having successfully altered the genetics of chickens in his basement. Over the next decade, he was to be “discovered” and taken under the wing of scientific giants such as psychologist B. F. Skinner, immunologist Jonas Salk, and heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard. His mentors described him as a “genius,” a “renegade” thinker, even likening him to Einstein.”
Research with B. F. Skinner&The Father of Modern Behavorism&
Most Prominent Psychologists
(Citations Per Scholar)
SCIENCE 207; 543 (1980)
Lanza (with Skinner & Epstein)
SCIENCE 212; 695 (1981)
Lanza (with Skinner & Epstein)
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 38; 201 (1982)
Lanza (with Skinner & Starr)
Pigeon Talk - A triumph for bird brains
TIME Magazine
Pigeons& &Conversation& Triggers a Debate About Language
New York Times
Science Watch: &Self-Awareness& in Animals
New York Times
Pigeons Punch Buttons. Talking or Training?
My Weekly Reader
Research with Jonas Salk and Christiaan Barnard
Work with Jonas Salk
Developed Polio Vaccine
J. Supramol. Struct 182;33 (1979)
Lanza (with Salk)
Work with Christiaan Barnard
Performed the World’s First Heart Transplant
New England Journal of Medicine 307; )
Lanza (with Barnard & Cooper)
JAMA 249; )
Lanza (with Barnard, Cooper & Cassidy)
American Heart Journal 107; 8 (1984)
Lanza (with Barnard, Cooper & Boyd)
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