The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality

<br />What a mind-boggling book is Robert Lanza's 2020 book with physicist Matej Pavsic.! Called The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality, it follows the publication of two bestselling books about biocentrism, the centuries-long culmination, it would seem, of the scientific theory of quantum physics. Critics accuse Lanza of merging, indeed contaminating, metaphysics or philosophy with real physics, but are they simply behind the times?<br /><br />Not that there is in reality time, except what is created by our minds to help us navigate the world of senses we live in.<br /><br />Before we delve into this most provocative book, I think we must make sure that you understand what a theory refers to. It is not misinformation, fake news, or a story to amuse or confuse you. It is not proposed for your entertainment. Here is a definition found online<br /> <br /><br />“A theory is a set of accepted beliefs or organized principles that explain and guide analysis and one of the ways that theory is defined is that it is different from practice, when certain principles are tested. ... This word is a noun and comes from the Greek theoria, which means "contemplation or speculation." <br /><br />In other words, scientific theories like quantum physics and biocentrism are serious, constructive ideas tested numerously for validity or invalidity by dozens, if not hundreds, of serious scientists.<br /><br />I was trying to explain the premise of the book with a devout Christian and she was not buying it at all, but laughed at he idea that we collectively as conscious beings created our universe through our contemplation of and participation in it. Not only are we not mere passive observers, but active designers who allowed the 500 forces of nature, the foundational laws of physics, to be set in exactly the right way for life to flourish.<br /><br />This is so not about thinking of ourselves as a god. It's about understanding the power of our minds, which are more than our physical brains. You could consider it as soul, but not the religious kind.<br /><br />Quantum particles and waves have been found repeatedly and consistently for over a century by acclaimed scientists to be unformed probabilities until they are observed by scientists. Upon observation, a wave collapse function occurs that permanently transform it into form or matter.<br /><br />Lanza and Pavsic explain at length the twelve principles of biocentrism throughout the book (and more in depth of the first seven in their previous books) to help us understand why this theory makes perfect sense. It addresses the big questions humans have pondered throughout history without dismissing us as separate from nature and inactive observers or the universe as coming incredibly from nothing.<br /><br />Though a heavy read that challenged my patience, plus my brain cells, I loved the book. <br /><br />I've long been an atheist after a mystical religious perspective lost any meaning for me. Biocentrism is not solipsism or navel-gazing or about the need for redemption and a white, male savior. It respects you as a free agent who chooses to do good and not fear death because consciousness as energy never dies but creates another world where we continue to live, although I'm doubting this is physical life.<br /><br />Please, though, don't just take my word for how much biocentrism, and quantum physics (quantum mechanics, quantum gravity etc) make sense. I only broadly outlined the science revealed in the book, including the appendix.<br /><br />I hope you'll take a chance on this book!<br /><br />

"<i> <b>The very study of the external world [leads] to the conclusion that the content of consciousness is an ultimate reality.</b> </i><br />—Eugene Wigner"<br /><br />* So begins one of the chapters in the first third of the book which deals in a somewhat rigorous (without the attendant equations) treatment of various quantum mechanical concepts like entanglement, locality, many-worlds interpretation, superposition, indeterminacy, etc. that reads very easily to the average reader and how that relates to a conscious observer being necessary for things (meaning reality) to work.<br /><br />* After that comes discussions on consciousness, qualia and the subjective experience of awareness (of both philosophical and neurophysiological bents). They try to explain scientifically how various quantum mechanical processes occuring in brain cells leads to a unified conscious subjective experience without shying away from admitting when something is unknown.<br /><br />* Next up comes an explanation of causation and free will (with Libet's experiments as an example) using biocentricism to unveil certain insights. Other topics discussed in the light of quantum mechanics are: Arrow of time, dreams &amp; multidimensional reality, animal consciousness, death, immortality, quantum suicide, etc.<br /><br />The authors' exposition can be thus summarized: using fully realized and verifiable scientific hypotheses and experiments to bring together various disparate concepts in proving to us what the age old sages and mystics from time immemorial have espoused and shouted from the tops of mountains, burning bushes, etc. (most especially the Hermetic and Hindu philosophies), that consciousness is the only absolute and underlying reality in this and any other universe(s) and not only that, but it brings about said reality itself. In other words,<blockquote> <i>life creates reality,...The “universe” is simply the complete spatiotemporal logic of the self.</i> </blockquote>A great read, most especially to those not very well read in the scientific concepts the author's discussed in order to arrive at their conclusion. <b>Highly recommended</b> for the curious and open minded.<br /><br />"<b> <i>The universe is the externalization of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it.</i> </b><br />—Ralph Waldo Emerson"<br /><br /><b>Read:</b> 12252022<br />Edit I: 03122023

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<strong>Arguably, the best scientific theory of everything</strong><br /><br />Combines the old and new, written in easily understandable launguage, provides one a clear understanding of who, why, when. Well worth reading.....

I'm in my second re-read of this book, and it continues to confound and blow my mind.<br /><br />I'll have more to say when I'm finished. For now, I would just encourage anyone with an interest in quantum theory or the science of consciousness to read this book.

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What a mind-boggling book is Robert Lanza's 2020 book with physicist Matej Pavsic.! Called The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality, it follows the publication of two bestselling books about biocentrism, the centuries-long culmination, it would seem, of the scientific theory of quantum physics.

Als ich dieses Buch zum ersten Mal betrachtete, bemerkte ich einige Ähnlichkeiten zwischen Lanza und Dr. Salk. Oft werden wir dazu gebracht, uns als Ameisen auf einem Planeten zu betrachten, die den Launen der Lebensformen auf diesem Planeten unterliegen. Dennoch postuliert Lanza eine veränderte Realität, dass der Beobachter die materielle und vielleicht eine sakrosankte Komponente des Universums ist. Stellen Sie sich vor, das Bewusstsein ist ein Gehirn und einige haben mehr <br /><br />Fähigkeiten, das Universum und die Welten von der Vorstellungskraft des Betrachters abhängig zu machen (Einstein). Biozentrismus, indem wir hören, was die wissenschaft uns sagt. Wir betrachten das Leben als einen Unfall der Physik. Es wird deutlich, warum Raum und Zeit vom Betrachter abhängig sind. Die Zeit existiert relativ zu jedem Beobachter (Einstein). Lanza geht noch weiter. Alles, was sie sehen, ist ein wirbel von informationen, die in ihrem kopf vorkommen. <br /><br />"Der Tod ist einfach eine Unterbrechung unseres linearen Bewusstseinsstroms."<br />--- Robert Lanza, MD<br /><br />Der zeitpfeil wird direkt mit dem beobachter zusammengeführt. Die zeit vergeht nicht. Die quantengravitation, die welt der relativitätstheorie und die quantenmechanik (bizarre Zustände) sind nicht miteinander kompatibel. Quantenzustände bleiben verbunden. Die messung des einen beeinflusst den anderen und bezieht sich auf Einsteins gruselige aktion in der Ferne. Sogar katzen und menschen sollten in einem verwickelten zustand existieren. <br /><br />Dekohärenz das licht wird ein- oder ausgeschaltet, wenn wir seinen Zustand messen. Es ist notwendig, den Beobachter einzubeziehen. Leben und bewusstsein verschmelzen miteinander. Alles erscheint zufällig. Giraffen entwickeln lange hälse, um lange Äste und evolutionäre vorteile zu ergreifen. Berühmteste illustration einer million affen. Dies trifft nicht zu, da forscher und makaken die schreibmaschinen als toiletten benutzten. <br /><br />Also vergiss das blöde universum als seinen schwindel. Unser universum ist ein fein abgestimmter kosmos. Wenn die schwerkraft 2% anders wäre, hätten wir niemals die sonne oder das leben. Benötigen sie elektromagnetismus und die starke kraft (perfekt abgestimmt). Wenn wir ockhams rasiermesser anwenden, bietet biozentrismus die wahrscheinlichste erklärung. Das gesetz erlaubt es dem beobachter und der beobachter erzeugt sie. Kaufen für das ist wert.

<strong>.Enjoyable</strong><br /><br />This is an enjoyable read for the layman interested in life. All three books in this series tie together nicely.

Consciousness and the cosmic self <br /><br />This is the third book by author Robert Lanza about Biocentrism, an idea that life and consciousness create physical reality. This book propose that our observations and knowledge affect how physical objects behave and appear. Hence the principal argument here is that life isn't just a part of the universe, but life determines the structure of the cosmos including spacetime, matter energy, forces, and fields. The authors propose 11 principals of biocentrism, which states that matter and spacetime are not independent realities but rather tools of our mind. The ideas presented in this book is somewhat farfetched and may be outlandish. Simple considerations of the concepts of physics and biology illustrates the veracity of authors contention.<br /><br />The 4-dimensional spacetime is assumed to be the fabric of reality on which matter, and energy behave according to the laws of physics. Space behaves differently from matter, it can expand faster than speed of light, as it happened during the inflationary epoch. And spacetime apparently does not require energy for existence. But it also falls apart at the black hole implying that it is not fundamental, but an emergent structure from something deeper. General relativity treats gravity as the geometry of spacetime, but it also entails its dissolution which may explain why information escapes from a black hole. When black hole evaporates fully, the information also escapes completely because there is no black hole and no space. Dark energy is probably the intrinsic energy of space. At the cosmic level, the dark energy is overpowering gravity and pushing spacetime apart. When the universe was 380,000-year-old, the universe had 63% dark matter and no dark energy. But after 13.8 billion years, the dark matter is reduced to 23% and dark energy rose to 72% with only 5% visible matter. <br /><br />The universe consists of information; every elementary particle carries information about their physical properties that characterizes them. Fundamental particles like quarks and Higgs Bosons are not directly observed since they are extremely unstable, and generally characterized by the information associated with them. Hence, matter becomes the secondary concept. In addition, space is not smooth and continuous as we see and perceive. At quantum scales space is grid like and exists in discrete bits (like information). It is possible that our universe could be a simulation running on a cosmic computer using these information as codes. Information as a fundamental component of physical reality emerges from the fact that the universe may be like a hologram or an illusion, as illustrated by analyzing the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation left over from the Big Bang. <br /><br />A black hole also contains information about matter and energy that fell into it. This information is stored on a two-dimensional surface but contains information that came from three-dimensional space. Spacetime may also exist in a knot into doughnut- or pretzel-like shapes. The extra connectivity creates tunnels or wormholes between otherwise far-flung places in the universe and permits quantum entanglement and information exchange that is otherwise forbidden by special relativity. Wormholes, the holographic principle, emergent space-time, quantum entanglement, and quantum computation are some of the concepts in physics that makes understanding physical reality captivating and confounding. At best, the laws as we understand, explains many puzzling things in cosmos, but not all! We know all there is to know about the genome a laboratory mouse, but we don’t know what it feels like to be a mouse.<br /><br />Living systems are defined by the concept of "organization. Cells are autopoietic systems that build themselves: they literally construct their own constraints on the release of energy into a few degrees of freedom. Life’s emergence might rest on the foundations of physics, but it is not derivable from them. Living systems achieve a local reduction in their entropy as they grow and develop; they create structures of greater internal energy (lower entropy), higher order, and higher information out of the nutrients they absorb. Central to this philosophy is life is not an objective property of the cosmos, but a collection of special cases that links of non-equilibrium processes and boundary condition constraints on the release of energy into a few degrees of freedom. In reproducing systems such as cells, a closure is achieved linking these processes and constraint construction into an organization that closes on itself. Such a system is a self-controlled machine that is independent. Experiments on self-assembly and self-organization in large molecules such as metal oxides are attempting to take an ensemble approach to provide new paths for developing general theories on the universal principles bridging matter and life.<br /><br />Is quantum reality (of subatomic particles) linked to classical reality (of larger molecules/structures) in everyday life? It should be because all objects are made of subatomic particles. It appears that deep down spacetime and matter-energy, the underlying realities may also include consciousness that appears in the interpretations of quantum reality. The nature of dark matter and dark energy and their relationship to each other and their impact on spacetime is also unclear. In metaphysical terms, the book contains ideas of Advaita Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism which proposes that the Pure Consciousness (Brahman) is the Ultimate Reality, and the phenomenal transient world is an illusion (Maya). Brahman is the material cause of all that exists in the cosmos. it is the primordial reality that creates, maintains, and withdraws from the universe. Brahman's qualities are called Sat-Cit-Ananda (Eternal Being-Consciousness-Bliss.)<br />