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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 29 2010, 01:42 AM (495 Views) | |
| Mike | Mar 29 2010, 01:42 AM Post #1 |
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Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe by Robert Lanza (Author), Bob Berman (Author) Product Description 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 relationships 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, forced upon us by the experimental findings of quantum theory. At the same time, these findings have increased our doubt and uncertainty about traditional 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 new paradigm, life is not just an accidental byproduct of the laws of physics. Biocentrism 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 shatters the reader’s ideas of life, time and space, and even death. At the same time, it releases us from the dull worldview that life is merely the activity of an admixture of carbon and a few other elements; it suggests the exhilarating possibility that life is fundamentally immortal. 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. From the Back Cover Praise for Robert Lanza’s essay “A New Theory of the Universe,” on which Biocentrism is based: “Like A Brief History of Time, it is indeed stimulating and brings biology into 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, 1990 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology and Medicine “It is genuinely an exciting piece of work…. The idea that consciousness creates reality has quantum support … and also coheres with some of the things biology and neuroscience are telling us about the structures of our being. Just as we now know that the sun doesn’t really move but we do (we are the active agents), so [it is] suggesting that we are the entities that give meaning to the particular configuration of all possible outcomes we call reality.” ―Ronald Green, director of Dartmouth College’s Ethics Institute “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 … 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, internationally recognized scientist and director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Read more about this book at Amazon.com _________________________________________________________________ Ever the curious mind, I ordered the Kindle edition of this book last night. New theories of the Universe intrigue me. |
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| Mike | Apr 9 2010, 02:53 AM Post #2 |
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Hmmm. I read 25% of the book and had to set it down for a few days to digest the content. As I suspected, scientists like to play games so that theories can be supported when faced with new evidence that disputes their claims. |
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| ngc1514 | Apr 9 2010, 09:52 AM Post #3 |
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Hmmm... is right! Would you be kind enough to clairfy this sentence? I really don't parse it at all. What theory? What evidence, what claim is it disputing, and what game is played? |
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| ngc1514 | Apr 13 2010, 08:56 PM Post #4 |
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Padre? |
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