A book titled “Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe“ has stirred up the Internet, because it contained a notion that life does not end when the body dies, and it can last forever. The author of this publication, scientist Dr. Robert Lanza who was voted the 3rd most important scientist alive by the NY Times, has no doubts that this is possible.Beyond time and space
Lanza is an expert in regenerative medicine and scientific director of Advanced Cell Technology Company. Before he has been known for his extensive research which dealt with stem cells, he was also famous for several successful experiments on cloning endangered animal species.
But not so long ago, the scientist became involved with physics, quantum mechanics and astrophysics. This explosive mixture has given birth to the new theory of biocentrism, which the professor has been preaching ever since. Biocentrism teaches that life and consciousness are fundamental to the universe. It is consciousness that creates the material universe, not the other way around.
Lanza points to the structure of the universe itself, and that the laws, forces, and constants of the universe appear to be fine-tuned for life, implying intelligence existed prior to matter.
He also claims that space and time are not objects or things, but rather tools of our animal understanding. Lanza says that we carry space and time around with us “like turtles with shells.” meaning that when the shell comes off (space and time), we still exist.
The theory implies that death of consciousness simply does not exist. It only exists as a thought because people identify themselves with their body. They believe that the body is going to perish, sooner or later, thinking their consciousness will disappear too. If the body generates consciousness, then consciousness dies when the body dies.
But if the body receives consciousness in the same way that a cable box receives satellite signals, then of course consciousness does not end at the death of the physical vehicle. In fact, consciousness exists outside of constraints of time and space. It is able to be anywhere: in the human body and outside of it. In other words, it is non-local in the same sense that quantum objects are non-local.
Lanza also believes that multiple universes can exist simultaneously. In one universe, the body can be dead. And in another it continues to exist, absorbing consciousness which migrated into this universe.
This means that a dead person while traveling through the same tunnel ends up not in hell or in heaven, but in a similar world he or she once inhabited, but this time alive. And so on, infinitely. It’s almost like a cosmic Russian doll afterlife effect.
Multiple worlds
This hope-instilling, but extremely controversial theory by Lanza has many unwitting supporters, not just mere mortals who want to live forever, but also some well-known scientists. These are the physicists and astrophysicists who tend to agree with existence of parallel worlds and who suggest the possibility of multiple universes. Multiverse (multi-universe) is a so-called scientific concept, which they defend. They believe that no physical laws exist which would prohibit the existence of parallel worlds.The first one was a science fiction writer H.G. Wells who proclaimed in 1895 in his story “The Door in the Wall”.
And after 62 years, this idea was developed by Dr. Hugh Everett in his graduate thesis at the Princeton University. It basically posits that at any given moment the universe divides into countless similar instances. And the next moment, these “newborn” universes split in a similar fashion. In some of these worlds you may be present: reading this article in one universe, or watching TV in another.Our souls are in fact constructed from the very fabric of the universe – and may have existed since the beginning of time. Our brains are just receivers and amplifiers for the proto-consciousness that is intrinsic to the fabric of space-time. So is there really a part of your consciousness that is non-material and will live on after the death of your physical body?
Dr Hameroff told the Science Channel’s Through the Wormhole documentary: “Let’s say the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing, the microtubules lose their quantum state. The quantum information within the microtubules is not destroyed, it can’t be destroyed, it just distributes and dissipates to the universe at large”. Robert Lanza would add here that not only does it exist inthe universe, it exists perhaps in another universe.If the patient is resuscitated, revived, this quantum information can go back into the microtubules and the patient says “I had a near death experience”‘
He adds: “If they’re not revived, and the patient dies, it’s possible that this quantum information can exist outside the body, perhaps indefinitely, as a soul.”
This account of quantum consciousness explains things like near-death experiences, astral projection, out of body experiences, and even reincarnation without needing to appeal to religious ideology. The energy of your consciousness potentially gets recycled back into a different body at some point, and in the mean time it exists outside of the physical body on some other level of reality, and possibly in another universe.
We are all one and our soul and spirit lives on.....
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Merely realizing through scientific study - what Indian philosophy of Vedas and Vedanta stated couple of thousand years ago.....
ReplyDeleteWhat is realized, neither of those things even ranks as a hypothesis.
Deleteexactely, but only entering the depth of Veda understanding for the first time..with this millions of paralel universa we science still has a path to walk towards unity-consciousness.....how to trespass the treshold of duality, when it turns out to be the basic assumption of your instrument???? just keep on knocking at the door, once it opens love will flood in, omnipresent Love and Light...and then we understand that there is nothing new about the theory....yess...compared to other theories it is a huge step.....feeling how the theories are coming closer and closer to who we are and where we ome from it is stil a way to go, nothing new, but a few discoveries are waiting...prepare for a miracle
DeleteIt's a theory at best...
ReplyDeleteNot even that. In science, a theory is backed by mountains of evidence and has been rigourously tested.
DeleteIt's not a theory. It's not even a hypothesis. It's barely a notion!
DeleteA leap of faith. It is as scientific as any religion on the planet. I can respect but am not remotely convinced
Deleteit's much more than just a theory
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ReplyDeleteNo, it is terrifying.
You won't get to live forever as young person, but rather as an increasingly old person who is incapable of dying.
There is nothing that says a 120 year-old person is guaranteed to die soon. Its just that most probable futures lead to death. However there are some improbable futures where your body retains just enough functionality to keep creeping on. So your consciousness then keeps traveling to those improbable futures where you are still alive.
You will live forever in agony, possible even the death of the earth itself when it gets consumed by the sun. Heat is random movements of particles, so there are some unlikely (vanishingly small) improbable futures where a 5 billion year old human body is somehow able to retain enough coherence through local temperature anomalies while floating around a red giant sun.
Sounds like a materialist hell to me.
I suppose there could be a time were your increasingly unlikely survival is less probable than being boltzman-brained back into the body of 20 year old, but your looking at a tremendous amount of time in unperishing agony before that happens.