Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe

by Robert Lanza

baryonic matter—that is, everything we see, and everything that has form, plus all known energies—is abruptly reduced to just 4 percent of the universe, with dark matter constituting about 24 percent.

Big Bang had been one-part-in-a-million more powerful, it would

These are just three of just more than two hundred physical parameters within the solar system and universe so exact that it strains

First Principle of Biocentrism: What we perceive as reality is a process that involves our consciousness.

Dr. Stephen Kuffler, the world-famous neurobiologist who had been nominated for the Nobel Prize.

Josh Sanes, who is now a member of the National Academy of Sciences and Director of the Center for Brain Science at Harvard

Descartes and Kant, there were of course a great many other philosophers who argued along these lines—Leibniz, Berkeley, Schopenhauer, and Bergson to name a few.

The experiments of Heisenberg, Bell, Gisin, and Wineland, fortunately, call us back to experience

Before matter can peep forth—as a pebble, a snowflake, or even a subatomic particle—it has to be observed by a living creature.

“Many Worlds Interpretation” (MWI), which says that everything that can happen, does happen. The

Third Principle of Biocentrism: The behavior of subatomic particles—indeed all particles and objects—is inextricably linked to the presence of an observer. Without the presence of a conscious observer, they at best exist in an undetermined state of probability waves.

Quantum theory deals with probabilities, and the likely places particles may appear, and likely actions they will take. And while, as we shall see, bits of light and matter do indeed change behavior depending on whether they are being observed, and measured particles do indeed amazingly appear to influence the past behavior of other particles,