Our mission is to establish a world-class international institute of scholarship, science, and engineering focused on the explanation of experience in nature. Our scientific mission is to integrate a theory of sentience with other theories of nature and to develop technologies based upon successful theories.Our success will provide contributions to the foundations of logic and apprehension, the natural sciences, and to medicine.We will enable new technologies able to solve problems related to recognition, sensory modality and motility that are impossible or intractable today. These technologies lie at the convergence of the life sciences, semiconductor, and materials industries and have broad strategic implications for our future.