Cells are not passive units. Every single one is sensing, responding, and adjusting based on its environment.

Gene expression changes based on who or what is around it: mechanical pressure, nutrient gradients, light, chemical messengers, even electromagnetic fields. A skin cell near a wound activates different genes than the same type of cell in healthy skin. Why? Because the context, the “observer” field, has changed.

The environment “observes” the cell, and the cell responds not with fixed behavior, but with an adapted identity.

Think of how your personality shifts slightly based on who’s in the room. Not out of dishonesty, but because you are multipotential, and people call out different aspects of you.

Around your boss, you’re structured and alert. Around your childhood friend, you might loosen and become more expressive. Neither of these “yous” is fake, they’re both realized states drawn from your field of potential.

But cells do the same! A stem cell can become a muscle cell, a neuron, or a skin cell, depending on the signaling it receives, which is the biological equivalent of being “observed” in a certain way. When placed in one tissue, it becomes that tissue. In another context, it becomes something else.

This is quantum logic scaled to biology: the potential is there, but the outcome depends on the conditions of interaction.

In physics, the observer effect isn’t just about “looking”, it’s about interaction. A photon hitting an electron changes it by the very act of detecting it. Similarly, in biology, even the tools we use to observe can change the system: A microscope’s light can alter mitochondrial behavior. A biopsy removes a tissue from its environment, causing its gene expression to shift.

The way we look changes the thing we see. The cell “behaves” differently under stress, under surveillance, under connection. Just like you.

You are not just a body of cells. You are a dynamic field, a kind of emergent resonance, constructed moment by moment through your internal state and your relational field.

Cells, too, are part of this web. Each cell senses the whole body field (via hormones, electrical potential, fascia tension, light) and adjusts its behavior accordingly. Cells can be coherent or incoherent depending on whether it resonates with the field.

This is why some researchers propose that health is coherence, and disease is what happens when that coherence breaks down.