Apr 26, 2020 09:19 PM
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INTRO (from someplace): Biocentrism, also referred to as the biocentric universe, is a theory proposed by renowned scientist, Robert Lanza. This theory explains that life and biology are the central pieces to being, reality and the cosmos. It explains how life creates the universe rather than the other way around. [...] When describing this theory, Robert Lanza explains that what we call space and time are forms of animal sense perception rather than external physical objects. Understanding this simple yet revolutionary idea provides us with new ways to answer some of the major puzzles of mainstream science. Biocentrism offers a new way of understanding everything from the microworld to the forces, constants, and laws that shape our entire universe.
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Robert Lanza - BIOCENTRISM: ... In truth, you can’t see anything through the bone that surrounds your brain. Your eyes are not portals to the world. Everything you see and experience right now – even your body – is a whirl of information occurring in your mind. According to biocentrism, space and time aren’t the hard, cold objects we think. Wave your hand through the air – if you take everything away, what’s left? Nothing. The same thing applies for time. Space and time are simply the tools for putting everything together.
[...] Death doesn’t exist in a timeless, spaceless world. Immortality doesn’t mean a perpetual existence in time, but resides outside of time altogether. Our linear way of thinking about time is also inconsistent with another series of experiments... Life is an adventure that transcends our ordinary linear way of thinking. When we die, we do so not in the random billiard-ball-matrix but in the inescapable-life-matrix. Life has a non-linear dimensionality.
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2007 arguably 1st published appearance of the idea, in The American Scholar, "A New Theory of the Universe": ...Most of these comprehensive theories are no more than stories that fail to take into account one crucial factor: we are creating them. It is the biological creature that makes observations, names what it observes, and creates stories. Science has not succeeded in confronting the element of existence that is at once most familiar and most mysterious—conscious experience. As Emerson wrote in “Experience,” an essay that confronted the facile positivism of his age: “We have learned that we do not see directly, but mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these subjectlenses have a creative power; perhaps there are no objects.” Biology is at first glance an unlikely source for a new theory of the universe...
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There is no death, only a series of eternal ‘nows’: ...as you’re reading this, you’re experiencing a ‘now’. But consider: from your great-grandmother’s perspective, your nows exist in her future and her great-grandmother’s nows exist in her past. The words ‘past’ and ‘future’ are just ideas relative to each individual observer.
So what happened to your great-grandmother after she died? To start with – since time doesn’t exist – there is no ‘after death’, except the death of her physical body in your now. Since everything is just nows, there is no absolute space/time matrix for her energy to dissipate – it’s simply impossible for her to have ‘gone’ anywhere.
Think of it like one of those old phonographs. The information on the record is turned into a three-dimensional reality that we can experience a moment at a time. All the other information on the record exists as potential. Any causal history leading up to the ‘now’ being experienced can be thought of as the ‘past’ (ie, the songs that played before wherever the needle is), and any events that follow occur in the ‘future’; these parallel nows are said to be in superposition. Likewise, the before-death state, including your current life with its memories, goes back into superposition, into the part of the record that represents just information.
In short, death does not actually exist. Instead, at death, we reach the imagined border of ourselves [...] Einstein knew this. In 1955, when his lifelong friend Michele Besso died, he wrote: ‘Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.’
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Biocentrism Posits That Death Is Merely Transport into Another Universe: Dr. Lanza isn’t some newfangled guru. He’s a biotech Zion, and currently, the Chief Scientific Officer of the Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine. He’s studying stem cells and their application for treating disease. Previous to this, he did some research on embryonic stem cells and in cloning, both with animals and humans. Lanza is also an adjunct professor at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina.
[...] In quantum physics, particles can be ,,, in several different states at the same time. This is called superposition. ... In Lanza’s view, each corresponds with a different universe. This coincides with the “many worlds” theory, also known as the multiverse. ... Our life, Lanza believes, at one stage or another, is occurring across many universes simultaneously. Yet, your life on one world wouldn’t influence your life in another. [See quantum immortality (Wikipedia entry) or quantum immortality (blog entry).]
[...] It’s our consciousness that puts our reality together. For instance, space-time in physics is different from how we experience these, separate concepts in real life. Science treats the space-time continuum as a solid principle. According to Lanza they are “simply tools of our mind.” Death too in his view “cannot exist in any real sense.”
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Biocentrism Site
https://www.robertlanzabiocentrism.com/
https://www.robertlanza.com/biocentrism-...-universe/
Biocentrism News
https://biocentrismnews.com/
BOOK (2009): Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
https://www.amazon.com/Biocentrism-Consc...B003PJ6UHA
Adaptation from book: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sci...mos-itself
BOOK (2016): Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death
https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Biocentris...B01B11TQMO
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https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/x1aFivhFWGc
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fYy2p9N5eqQ
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Robert Lanza - BIOCENTRISM: ... In truth, you can’t see anything through the bone that surrounds your brain. Your eyes are not portals to the world. Everything you see and experience right now – even your body – is a whirl of information occurring in your mind. According to biocentrism, space and time aren’t the hard, cold objects we think. Wave your hand through the air – if you take everything away, what’s left? Nothing. The same thing applies for time. Space and time are simply the tools for putting everything together.
[...] Death doesn’t exist in a timeless, spaceless world. Immortality doesn’t mean a perpetual existence in time, but resides outside of time altogether. Our linear way of thinking about time is also inconsistent with another series of experiments... Life is an adventure that transcends our ordinary linear way of thinking. When we die, we do so not in the random billiard-ball-matrix but in the inescapable-life-matrix. Life has a non-linear dimensionality.
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2007 arguably 1st published appearance of the idea, in The American Scholar, "A New Theory of the Universe": ...Most of these comprehensive theories are no more than stories that fail to take into account one crucial factor: we are creating them. It is the biological creature that makes observations, names what it observes, and creates stories. Science has not succeeded in confronting the element of existence that is at once most familiar and most mysterious—conscious experience. As Emerson wrote in “Experience,” an essay that confronted the facile positivism of his age: “We have learned that we do not see directly, but mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these subjectlenses have a creative power; perhaps there are no objects.” Biology is at first glance an unlikely source for a new theory of the universe...
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There is no death, only a series of eternal ‘nows’: ...as you’re reading this, you’re experiencing a ‘now’. But consider: from your great-grandmother’s perspective, your nows exist in her future and her great-grandmother’s nows exist in her past. The words ‘past’ and ‘future’ are just ideas relative to each individual observer.
So what happened to your great-grandmother after she died? To start with – since time doesn’t exist – there is no ‘after death’, except the death of her physical body in your now. Since everything is just nows, there is no absolute space/time matrix for her energy to dissipate – it’s simply impossible for her to have ‘gone’ anywhere.
Think of it like one of those old phonographs. The information on the record is turned into a three-dimensional reality that we can experience a moment at a time. All the other information on the record exists as potential. Any causal history leading up to the ‘now’ being experienced can be thought of as the ‘past’ (ie, the songs that played before wherever the needle is), and any events that follow occur in the ‘future’; these parallel nows are said to be in superposition. Likewise, the before-death state, including your current life with its memories, goes back into superposition, into the part of the record that represents just information.
In short, death does not actually exist. Instead, at death, we reach the imagined border of ourselves [...] Einstein knew this. In 1955, when his lifelong friend Michele Besso died, he wrote: ‘Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.’
- - -
Biocentrism Posits That Death Is Merely Transport into Another Universe: Dr. Lanza isn’t some newfangled guru. He’s a biotech Zion, and currently, the Chief Scientific Officer of the Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine. He’s studying stem cells and their application for treating disease. Previous to this, he did some research on embryonic stem cells and in cloning, both with animals and humans. Lanza is also an adjunct professor at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina.
[...] In quantum physics, particles can be ,,, in several different states at the same time. This is called superposition. ... In Lanza’s view, each corresponds with a different universe. This coincides with the “many worlds” theory, also known as the multiverse. ... Our life, Lanza believes, at one stage or another, is occurring across many universes simultaneously. Yet, your life on one world wouldn’t influence your life in another. [See quantum immortality (Wikipedia entry) or quantum immortality (blog entry).]
[...] It’s our consciousness that puts our reality together. For instance, space-time in physics is different from how we experience these, separate concepts in real life. Science treats the space-time continuum as a solid principle. According to Lanza they are “simply tools of our mind.” Death too in his view “cannot exist in any real sense.”
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Biocentrism Site
https://www.robertlanzabiocentrism.com/
https://www.robertlanza.com/biocentrism-...-universe/
Biocentrism News
https://biocentrismnews.com/
BOOK (2009): Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
https://www.amazon.com/Biocentrism-Consc...B003PJ6UHA
Adaptation from book: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sci...mos-itself
BOOK (2016): Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death
https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Biocentris...B01B11TQMO
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