Rethinking Immortality ~ and Biocentrism

Rethinking Immortality ~ by Robert Lanza, 1990, science

Contemplation of time and the discoveries of modern science lead to the assertion that the mind is paramount and limitless.  A Facebook friend posted a link to the article Is Death an Illusion? and I remembered that I have Lanza's book on Biocentrism on my Kindle.  While reading that article about death, I added Rethinking Immortality to my Kindle.

Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe ~ by Robert Lanza and Bob Berman, 2009, science

Western natural philosophy is undergoing a sea change, forced upon us by the experimental findings of quantum theory, and at the same time, towards doubt and uncertainty in the physical explanations of the universe’s genesis and structure.  Biocentrism completes this shift in worldview with the revolutionary view that life creates the universe instead of the other way around.  Switching perspective from physics to biology shatters our ideas of life, time and space, and even death.  With this new sense of possibility, readers will never see reality the same way again.  I wrote a lot more about this book when I bought it in 2015.

Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death ~ by Robert Lanza, 2016, science

Biocentrism shocked the world with a radical rethinking of the nature of reality, but that was just the beginning.  In this book, Lanza and Berman re-examine everything we thought we knew about life, death, the universe, and the nature of reality itself.  Science increasingly points toward an infinite universe, but has no ability to explain what that really means.  Concepts such as time, space, and even causality are increasingly being demonstrated as meaningless.  All of science is based on information passing through our consciousness, but science hasn’t the foggiest idea what consciousness is and can’t explain the linkage between subatomic states and observation by conscious observers.

Science describes life as an random occurrence in a dead universe, but has no real understanding of how life began or why the universe appears to be exquisitely designed for the emergence of life.  The biocentrism theory isn’t a rejection of science.  Quite the opposite.  Biocentrism challenges us to fully accept the implications of the latest scientific findings in fields ranging from plant biology and cosmology to quantum entanglement and consciousness.  By listening to what the science is telling us, it becomes increasingly clear that life and consciousness are fundamental to any true understanding of the universe.  This forces a fundamental rethinking of everything we thought we knew about life, death, and our place in the universe.

Robert Lanza's web site has links to lots of articles.  Here are two:

(1)  How Life Creates the Universe
(2)  Is Death an Illusion?  Evidence Suggests Death Isn't the End