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TORONTO<!-- /dateline --> — A team of Canadian scientists has made a discovery about how human embryonic stem cells develop that could change the direction of research into what has been dubbed the Holy Grail of regenerative medicine.

Embryonic stem (ES) cells give rise to every tissue in the body — from the liver and heart to the bones and brain. Scientists around the world are working to understand how they might be harnessed to cure a wide variety of diseases, from growing a whole new organ to replacing brain cells damaged by Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.

The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us
with an entirely new way of understanding organization and
order. For most of its history, Western science has
labored under the bias that the best way to understand a
physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom, is to
dissect it and study its respective parts.

A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe
may not lend themselves to this approach. If we try to
take apart something constructed holographically, we will
not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only get
smaller wholes.

This insight suggested to Bohm another way of
understanding Aspect's discovery. Bohm believes the
reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact
with one another regardless of the distance separating
them is not because they are sending some sort of
mysterious signal back and forth, but because their
separateness is an illusion. He argues that at some deeper
level of reality such particles are not individual entities, but
are actually extensions of the same fundamental something.

The term despair, when used by existentialists, refers to the fact that all the
choices we make are based on uncertain information and an incomplete understanding of the world.

When discussing existentialism, people often are referring to Sartre's philosophy,
but generalizations about existentialism should be made with caution, as the term refers to the works of a series of fairly
divergent philosophers and authors, rather than a coherent and solitary world view. The one
proposition that unifies all existentialists is that existence precedes essence, which means that there is no such thing
as human nature or an essential character that is natural or determining for human life.