Biocentrism | Free Book
Every now and then a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ultimately changed the way people perceived themselves and their relationship with the world. For most humans of the 15th century, the notion of Earth as ball of rock was nonsense. The whole of Western, natural philosophy is undergoing a sea change again, increasingly being 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, turning the planet upside down again with the revolutionary view that life creates the universe instead of the other way around.
In this paradigm, life is not an accidental byproduct of the laws of physics. Biocetnrism takes the reader on a seemingly improbable but ultimately inescapable journey through a foreign universe—our own—from the viewpoints of an acclaimed biologist and a leading astronomer. Switching perspective from physics to biology unlocks the cages in which Western science has unwittingly managed to confine itself. Biocentrism will shatter the reader's ideas of life--time and space, and even death. At the same time it will release us from the dull worldview of life being merely the activity of an admixture of carbon and a few other elements; it suggests the exhilarating possibility that life is fundamentally immortal.
The 21st century is predicted to be the Century of Biology, a shift from the previous century dominated by physics. It seems fitting, then, to begin the century by turning the universe outside-in and unifying the foundations of science with a simple idea discovered by one of the leading life-scientists of our age. Biocentrism awakens in readers a new sense of possibility, and is full of so many shocking new perspectives that the reader will never see reality the same way again.
In The Press
"I found the attack on physics to be pretty compelling ... Lanza's
theories [are] certainly worth debate."
Houston Chronicle's Eric Berger, SciGuy blog
"What makes this book both interesting and worth the
effort of reading it; is the unique perspective Lanza brings to the
subject matter as a physician. ... From the way [Lanza] chooses to
present his arguments, it's clear he has a solid grasp of esoteric
disciplines like quantum theory, special relativity and particle
physics. And what makes his presentation more compelling than other
efforts I've encountered is his ability and willingness to weave
personal experience into the thoughts and ideas presented. His style
is conversational and warm which tends to pull you along through the
exposition gently. And his sense of wonder and befuddlement at shop
worn enigmas like the double slit experiment, Bell's theorem,
non-locality and Schrödinger's cat is as infectious as it is
delightful ... I very much like what Lanza has to say in
Biocentrism."
Midwest Book Review
Endorsements for Robert Lanza's essay on which
Biocentrism is based:
"For several days now I have read and reread your article and
thought about it. Like a brief history of time' it is indeed
stimulating and brings biology into the whole. Any short statement
does not do justice to such a scholarly work. Almost every society of
mankind has explained the mystery of our surroundings and being by
invoking a god or group of gods. Scientists work to acquire objective
answers from the infinity of space or the inner machinery of the atom.
Lanza proposes a biocentrist theory which ascribes the answer to the
observer rather than the observed. The work is a scholarly
consideration of science and philosophy that brings biology into the
central role in unifying the whole. The book will appeal to an
audience of many different disciplines because it is a new way of
looking at the old problem of our existence. Most importantly, it
makes you think."
E. Donnall Thomas
Thomas was awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington and
Director Emeritus of the Clinical Research Division at the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
"It is genuinely an exciting piece of work. I am very
familiar with some of the things you say. The idea that consciousness
creates reality has quantum support, as you suggest, and also coheres
with some of the things biology and neuroscience are telling us about
the structures of our being. To put what you are doing in a larger
context, it exhibits a dramatic new Copernican reversal. Just as we
now know that the sun doesn't really move but we do (we are the active
agents), so you are suggesting that we are the entities that give
meaning to the particular configuration of all possible outcomes we
call reality. I think this is a great project."
Ronald Green
Green is the Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of
Ethics and Human Values, and Director of Dartmouth College's Ethics
Institute. Professor Green is a well-known religious studies scholar
and former Chairman of the Department of Religion
"Robert Lanza, a world renowned scientist who has spanned
many fields from drug delivery to stem cells to preventing animal
extinction, and clearly one of the most brilliant minds of our times,
has done it again. A New Theory of the Universe' takes into account
all the knowledge we have gained over the last few centuries, and
correlates them to our own beings, placing in perspective our biologic
limitations that have impeded our understanding of greater truths
surrounding our existence and the universe around us. This new theory
is certain to revolutionize our concepts of the laws of nature for
centuries to come."
Anthony Atala
Atala is an internationally recognized scientist, and the W.H.
Boyce Professor, Chair, and Director of the Wake Forest Institute
for Regenerative Medicine at the Wake Forest University School of
Medicine.
"As an astrophysicist, I focus my attention on objects
that are very large and very far away, ignoring the whole issue of
consciousness as a critical part of the Universe. Reading Robert
Lanza's work is a wake-up call to all of us that even on the grandest
scale we still depend on our minds to experience reality. Issues of
"quantum weirdness" do have a place in the macroscopic world. Time and
space do depend on perception. We can go about our daily lives and
continue to study the physical Universe as if it exists as an
objective reality (because the probabilities allow that degree of
confidence), but we do so with a better awareness of an underlying
biological component, thanks to Dr. Lanza. I cannot speak for NASA or
other NASA scientists, but personally I look forward to hearing a more
detailed explanation of this biocentric view of the Universe from Dr.
Lanza."
David Thompson
Thompson is an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight
Center. His contributions include the building and flying of
prototypes of EGRET, which was launched by the Space Shuttle
Atlantis in 1991. He is currently with the Astroparticle Physics
Laboratory, and has received both the Goddard Space Flight Center
& NASA Group Exceptional Achievement Awards.
"Yes, it is appropriate to ask whether our perception of
space and time is a consequence of our particular neurophysiology.
Yes, it is appropriate to ask how it happened that the conditions
worked out to be just right for life to appear somehow on earth and
then to evolve from the archaea through the eukaryotes to us. ... I'll
bet the book gets a good audience. And I like to see books published
that challenge my own ideas and thoughts in ways that make me think,
but not ones that simply throw dogma at me. The essay is definitely of
the former kind."
R. Stephen Berry
Berry is James Franck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus,
Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago. Professor Berry is a
member (and recent Home Secretary) of the prestigious National
Academy of Sciences. He was also former Vice President of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and MacArthur Prize "Genius"
Fellow.
"Science has a token of freedom that motivates scientists
to study all logical possibilities that may explain the world. Robert
Lanza has come up with an innovative approach to investigate reality
from the viewpoint of biology. His article demands an answer to the
question of whether scientists have exhausted all possible tools for
studying nature. Can science bring biology into grand unified theory?
A solution is suggested that involves a new concept, biocentrism.
Lanza goes beyond the individual human attribute calling for
interconnectedness among all living creatures forming the fundamental
basis for understanding reality. A book that expands upon this unique
approach is warranted, not only to alert society, but to call on it to
test this novel new hypothesis."
Gunther Kletetschka
Kletetschka is a geophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight
Center. He is also a Research Professor of Physics at Catholic
University of America and leading scientist working on the James Web
Space Telescope.
"It's a masterpiecetruly a magnificent essay. Bob Lanza is
to be congratulated for a fresh and highly erudite look at the
question of how perception and consciousness shape reality and common
experience. His monograph combines a deep understanding and broad
insight into 20th century physics and modern biological science; in so
doing, he forces a reappraisal of this hoary epistemological dilemma.
Not all will agree with the proposition he advances, but most will
find his writing eminently readable and his arguments both convincing
and challenging. Bravo."
Michael Lysaght
Lysaght is Professor of Medical Science and Engineering at Brown
University and Director of Brown's Center for Biomedical
Engineering.
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