Personal Perspective: We are the first cause, not the Big Bang.
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The First Cause
Itâs a fascinating story to tell children but claiming that itâs all just a âdumbâ accident is no more helpful than saying âGod did it.â Loren Eiseley, the great naturalist, once said that scientists âhave not always been able to see that an old theory, given a hairsbreadth twist, might open an entirely new vista to the human reason.â The theory of evolution turns out to be the perfect case in hand. Amazingly, it all makes sense if you assume that the Big Bang is the end of the chain of physical causality, not the beginning.
Itâs us, the observer (including cats, dogs, and other sentient life), who create space and time. Consider everything you see around you right now. Language and custom say it all lies outside us in the external world. Yet we canât see anything through the vault of bone that surrounds our brain. Our eyes arenât just portals to the world. In fact, everything we experience, including our body, is part of an active process occurring in our mind. Space and time are simply the mindâs tools for putting it all together. Our mind also has the capacity to generate a 3D spatial world even when we dream, even though weâre lying in bed with our eyes closed.
As Hawking said, the past, like the future, exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. Until the present is determined, how can there be a past? The past begins with the observer, not the other way around as weâve been taught. We're the first cause, the vital force that collapses not only the present but the cascade of past spatio-temporal events we call evolution.
Forget the "just happened" theoryâthe parameters of the universe allow for us because we generate them.
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A Cloud of Information:
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Everything youâre experiencing right now is a cloud of information in your head.
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According to biocentrism, time and space are simply the way our mind puts it all together, organizing it into the reality we see and experience; they are the language of consciousness, not objects or things like cups and pans.
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Your journey always starts in the ânow.â And although you may have knowledge of one possible timeline at the time of your death, itâs not the end. It is just the beginning. Think of yourself as a precog who knows whatâs going to happen (and what choices you can make).
In order to understand the true nature of reality, science must first recognize the importance of consciousness, says Dr. Robert Lanza, a stem-cell biologist whose work has earned him high acclaim. He also sees a greater...
In order to understand the true nature of reality, science must first recognize the importance of consciousness, says Dr. Robert Lanza, a stem-cell biologist whose work has earned him high acclaim. He also sees a greater role for consciousness in the quest for a âTheory of Everything,â larger than even physics.
According to Lanza, everything that we experienceâincluding Newtonian physics and quantum physicsâis a system created by our consciousness. Even space and time are just tools used by the mind to piece together all the information of the universe.
âReality involves your consciousness,â said Lanza in a talk on biocentrism (see below) at the Science and Nonduality Conference 2010. âIt could not be there without your consciousness.â
Biocentrism is the term that Lanza gives to this conceptâthat the universe arises from life, not the other way around. He writes more about this radical idea in his 2010 book, Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe, co-written with astronomer Bob Berman.
In his book, Lanza explores famous paradoxes of quantum physics, such as the double-slit experiment and Heisenbergâs uncertainty principle. Both of these show that the behavior of particles changes when we observe them. But why should particles care if you are watching them? Lanza says they donât; itâs just that we are creating the reality that we are observing.
Or as Neils Bohr said: âWhen we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.â
Lanza also questions why life exists in the first place. According to what is known as the Goldilockâs Principle, hundreds of parameters in the universe are in the exact right range for life to survive. If you change one or more of these factorsâsuch as the strong nuclear force or the gravitational constantâlife would have never arisen.
Some possible explanations for this include that God created the universe, or that among a multitude of possible universes we happen to live in the one where life is possible. Lanza, though, says that the main reason our universe can support life is that consciousness created the parameters that have made the universe so hospitable to our existence.
The old theory of the universe has yet to sufficiently answer these fundamental questions. Lanza says that in order for science to move forward, it needs to venture into new territory.
âScience hasnât confronted the one thing thatâs most familiar and most mysterious, and that is, of course, consciousness,â he said.
Just started reading Biocentrism by Robert Lanza.... eye opening stuff (if youâll pardon the pun.. youâll need to read it to get that quip lol)
Seriously recommend to anyone wanting to broaden their objective understanding of the nature of consciousness (and if you dig biology or physics, you might like it too)
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Biocentrism Posits That Death Is Merely Transport into Another Universe
By Philip Perry
Swiss Engineer Michele Angelo Besso was a close friend of Einsteinâs. Upon his death, the father of relativity said, "Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us ... know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
We often think of the afterlife as a spiritual or religious belief, when in a way, its pursuit is also somewhat familiar to science. Robert Lanza, M.D. takes things one step further. He thinks we start out with a wrong assumption, that we have it all backward. It isnât the universe which is supreme, but life. In fact, life and in particular consciousness are essential to the makeup of the universe, he says. Through the theory of biocentrism, he believes he can prove that space and time do not exist, unless our consciousness says they do.
  The old mechanical view of death is outdated. With so much death all around us, from the pandemic to the war in Ukraine to all the mass
The old mechanical view of death is outdated.
With so much death all around us, from the pandemic to the war in Ukraine to all the mass shootings, you might wonder what it all means. Queen Elizabeth gone. Betty White gone. And perhaps even a loved one of yours gone. They no longer exist, right? They are just memories, at least from a rational scientific perspective. But what if youâre wrong?
Dr. Caroline Soames-Watkins also believed that the world around her existed as a hard, cold reality ticking away like a clock. Death was a foregone conclusionâuntil she learned different. Caro, the protagonist of my new novel co-written with award-winning sci-fi author Nancy Kress, also thought she had the world figured out. Not her personal world, which has been upended by controversy, but how the physical world works and how her consciousness operates within it. Broke and without a job, she accepts a job offer from her great-uncle, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who runs a research facility studying the space between biology and consciousnessâbetween the self and what we assume is reality. They are on the verge of a humanity-altering discovery, which throws Caro into dangerâlove, loss, and deathâthat she could never have imagined possible.
Observer takes Caro on a mind-expanding journey to the very edge of science, challenging her to think about life and the power of the imagination in startling new ways. The ideas behind Observer are based on real science, starting with the famous two-slit experiments, in which the presence of an observer affects the path taken by a sub-atomic particle, and moves step-by-step into cutting-edge science about quantum entanglement, on-going experiments applying quantum-level physics to the macro-world, the multiverse, and the nature of time and consciousness itself.
Death represents a break in the linear continuity of space and time
Our classical way of thinking is based on the belief that the world has an objective observer-independent existence, and so we think life is just the activity of carbon and an admixture of moleculesâwe live a while then rot in the ground. We believe in death because we associate ourselves with our body and we know bodies die. End of story.
Only that story is false, and a long series of experiments suggests death is not the terminal event we thinkârather, it just represents a break in the linear continuity of space and time.
Einstein was right. After the death of an old friend, he wrote âNow Besso 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.â
For example, you are young in one ânowâ, and you will experience wrinkles and graying hair in another ânow.â But in reality, they all exist in superposition. I like to think of it like one of those old phonographs. Listening to the music doesnât alter the record itself. Depending on where the needle is, you hear a certain song. This is the presentâthe music before and after the song is the past and the future. In like manner, every moment endures in nature always. The record doesnât go away. All ânows.â Like all songs on the record, exist simultaneously, although we can only experience it piece by piece.
Immortality doesnât mean a perpetual existence in timeâit resides outside of time altogether.
We generally reject the idea of multiple universes as science fiction, but it turns out there is scientific support for this popular genre. One well-known aspect of quantum physics is that observations canât be predicted absolutely. Instead, there is a range of possible observations, each with a different probability. One mainstream explanation, the âmany-worldsâ interpretation, states that each of these possible observations corresponds to a different universe âthe âmultiverse.â There are an infinite number of universes, and everything that could possibly happen occurs in some universe. Death does not exist in any real sense in these scenarios. All possible universes exist simultaneously, regardless of what happens in any one of them.
đŤ Our bodies may die but as Einstein said, that means nothing. Our consciousness continues to exist just as surely as the songs on the vinyl record.
