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

Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world--a US News & World Report cover story called him a „genius” and a „renegade thinker,” even likening him to Einstein. Lanza has teamed with Bob Berman, the most widely read astronomer in the world, to produce Biocentrism, a revolutionary new view of the universe. 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. 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 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.

amerikai szerző angol nyelvű biológia ismeretterjesztő kozmológia természettudomány tudományfilozófia tudományos világegyetem

BenBella Books, Dallas, 2010

200 oldal · ISBN: 9781935251743

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metahari

2015. július 26., 18:37

Robert Lanza – Bob Berman: Biocentrism How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe

nagyon sűrű, nagyon kell figyelni, még a szótárat is kinyitottam, hogy a lehető legpontosabban dekódoljam, de aztán hamar megnyílt… (egy kis időre…). most meg csak kapkodom a fejem és minden paragrafust elolvasok, nehogy valami kis részlet elszaladjon a figyelmem elől és a fejben elvégzett univerzum-kitaláláskos tévedjek netán, aztán meg itt állhatok fejben a dinoszauruszok között…
na jó, nem tréfadolog ez, mert úgy kezdi, hogy a tudományok csúcsa a biológia most már és ha észnél vagyunk, még ennél is többet érthetünk.
fejezetenként elővesz egy-egy princípiumot, meg is kapjuk a magyarázatot, de néhol van olyan ugrás a logikában, hogy hirtelen sziklaszirt szélén találom magam, na most akkor honnan hová? leülök aztán, kibogozom az ugrást, a kihagyott lépések tulajdonképpen nincsenek kihagyva, csak nem említette az író. ettől mondjuk egészen egyenetlen lett a könyv, néhol ugyanis nem hagy ki semmit a gondolatmenetből, ott egészen könnyedén olvasható.
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a végére érve kifejezetten csalódott lettem, úgy néz ki, ez a könyv a biocentrizmus hét alappontjának a bő lére eresztett definíciója, megtűzdelve az író személyes sztorizgatásával. se előre, se hátra nem jutottunk, el is ismeri, hogy a hogyantovább még számára is ismeretlen.
pedig pont erre voltam kíváncsi.

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metahari

2015. július 21., 23:05

Introduction

Our understanding of the universe as a whole has reached a dead end. The “meaning” of quantum physics has been debated since it was first discovered in the 1930s, but we are no closer to understanding it now that we were then. The “theory of everything” that was promised for decades to be just around the corner has been stuck for decades in the abstract mathematics of string theory, with its unproven and unprovable assertions.
But it's worse than that. Until recently, we thought we knew what the universe was made of, but it now turns out that 96 percent of the universe is composed of dark matter and dark energy, and we have virtually no idea what they are. We've accepted the Big Bang, despite the increasingly greater need to jury-rig it to fit our observations (as in the 1979 acceptance of a period of exponential growth, known as inflation, for which the physics is basically unknown). It even turns out that the Big Bang has no answer for one of the greatest mysteries in the universe: why is the universe exquisitely fine-tuned to support life?
Our understanding of the fundamentals of the universe is actually retreating before our eyes. The more data we gather, the more we've had to juggle our theories or ignore findings that simply make no sense.
This book proposes a new perspective: that our current theories of the physical world don't work, and can never be made to work, until they account for life and consciousness. This book proposes that, rather than a belated and minor outcome after billions of years of lifeless physical processes, life and consciousness are absolutely fundamental to our understanding of the universe. We call this new perspective biocentrism.
In this view, life is not an accidental by-product of the laws of physics. Nor is the nature of history of the universe the dreary play of billiard balls that we've been taught since grade school.
Through the eyes of a biologist and an astronomer, we will unlock the cages in which Western science has unwittingly managed to confine itself. The twenty-first 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, not with imaginary strings that occupy equally imaginary unseen dimensions, but with a much simpler idea that is rife with so many shocking new perspectives that we are unlikely ever to see reality the same way again.
Biocentrism may seem like a radical departure from our current understanding, and it is, but the hints have appeared all around us for decades. Some of the conclusions of biocentrism may resonate with aspects of Eastern religions or certain New Age philosophies. This is intriguing, but rest assured there is nothing New Age about this book. The conclusions of biocentrism are based on mainstream science, and it is a logical extension of the work of some of our greatest scientific minds.
Biocentrism cements the groundworks for new lines of investigation in physics and cosmology. This book will lay out the principles of biocentrism, all of which are built on established science, and all of which demand a rethinking of our current theories of the physical universe.

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