By Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, Menas Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones
Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Chapman University,
and Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy
Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and Director of
the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General
Hospital (MGH). The greatest mystery of existence is existence
itself. There is the existence of the universe and there is the
existence of the awareness of existence of the universe. Were it
not for this awareness, even if the universe existed as an
external reality, we would not be aware of its existence, so it
would for all practical purpose not exist. Traditional science
assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer
independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun,
moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.
However, modern quantum theory, the most successful of all
scientific creations of the human mind, disagrees. The
properties of a particle, quantum theory t