Is Death An
Illusion? Evidence Suggests Death Isn’t the End
After the death of his old friend, Albert
Einstein said “Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of
me. That means nothing. People like us … know that the distinction between
past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
New evidence continues to suggest that
Einstein was right – death isan illusion.
Our classical way of thinking is based on
the belief that the world has an objective observer-independent existence. But
a long list of experiments shows just the opposite. We think life is just the
activity of carbon and an admixture of molecules – we live awhile and then rot
into the ground.
We believe in death because we’ve been
taught we die. Also, of course, because we associate ourselves with our body
and we know bodies die. End of story. But biocentrism –
a new theory of everything – tells us death may not be the terminal event we
think. Amazingly, if you add life and consciousness to the equation, you can
explain some of the biggest puzzles of science. For instance, it becomes clear
why space and time – and even the properties of matter itself – depend on the
observer. It also becomes clear why the laws, forces, and constants of the
universe appear to be exquisitely fine-tuned for the existence of life.
Until we recognize the universe in our
heads, attempts to understand reality will remain a road to nowhere.
Consider the weather ‘outside’: You see a
blue sky, but the cells in your brain could be changed so the sky looks green
or red. In fact, with a little genetic engineering we could probably make
everything that is red vibrate or make a noise, or even make you want to have
sex like with some birds. You think its bright out, but your brain circuits
could be changed so it looks dark out. You think it feels hot and humid, but to
a tropical frog it would feel cold and dry. This logic applies to virtually
everything. Bottom line: What you see could not be present without your
consciousness.
In truth, you can’t see anything through the bone that surrounds your
brain. Your eyes are not portals to the world. Everything you see and
experience right now – even your body – is a whirl of information occurring in
your mind. According to biocentrism, space and time aren’t the hard, cold
objects we think. Wave your hand through the air – if you take everything away,
what’s left? Nothing. The same thing applies for time. Space and time are
simply the tools for putting everything together.
Consider the famous two-slit experiment.
When scientists watch a particle pass through two slits in a barrier, the
particle behaves like a bullet and goes through one slit or the other. But if
you don’t watch, it acts like a wave and can go through both slits at the same
time. So how can a particle change its behavior depending on whether you watch
it or not? The answer is simple – reality is a process that involves your
consciousness.
Or consider Heisenberg’s famous uncertainty
principle. If there is really a world out there with particles just bouncing
around, then we should be able to measure all their properties. But you can’t.
For instance, a particle’s exact location and momentum can’t be known at the
same time. So why should it matter to a particle what you decide to measure?
And how can pairs of entangled particles be instantaneously connected on
opposite sides of the galaxy as if space and time don’t exist? Again, the
answer is simple: because they’re not just ‘out there’ – space and time are
simply tools of our mind.
Death doesn’t exist in a timeless, spaceless
world. Immortality doesn’t mean a perpetual existence in time, but resides
outside of time altogether.
Our linear way of thinking about time is
also inconsistent with another series of recent experiments. In 2002,
scientists showed that particles of light “photons” knew – in advance – what
their distant twins would do in the future. They tested the communication
between pairs of photons. They let one photon finish its journey – it had to
decide whether to be either a wave or a particle. Researchers stretched the
distance the other photon took to reach its own detector. However, they could
add a scrambler to prevent it from collapsing into a particle. Somehow, the
first particle knew what the researcher was going to do before it happened –
and across distances instantaneously as if there were no space or time between
them. They decide not to become particles before their twin even encounters the
scrambler. It doesn’t matter how we set up the experiment. Our mind and its
knowledge is the only thing that determines how they behave. Experiments
consistently confirm these observer-dependent effects.
Bizarre? Consider another experiment that
was recently published in the prestigious scientific journal Science (Jacques et al, 315, 966, 2007).
Scientists in France shot photons into an apparatus, and showed that what they
did could retroactively change something that had already happened in the past.
As the photons passed a fork in the apparatus, they had to decide whether to
behave like particles or waves when they hit a beam splitter. Later on – well
after the photons passed the fork – the experimenter could randomly switch a
second beam splitter on and off. It turns out that what the observer decided at
that point, determined what the particle actually did at the fork in the past.
At that moment, the experimenter chose his past.
Of course, we live in the same world. But
critics claim this behavior is limited to the microscopic world. But this
‘two-world’ view (that is, one set of physical laws for small objects, and
another for the rest of the universe including us) has no basis in reason and
is being challenged in laboratories around the world. A couple years ago,
researchers published a paper in Nature (Jost
et al, 459, 683, 2009) showing
that quantum behavior extends into the everyday realm. Pairs of vibrating ions
were coaxed to entangle so their physical properties remained bound together when
separated by large distances (“spooky action at a distance,” as Einstein put
it). Other experiments with huge molecules called ‘Buckyballs’ also show that
quantum reality extends beyond the microscopic world. And in 2005, KHC03
crystals exhibited entanglement ridges one-half inch high, quantum behavior
nudging into the ordinary world of human-scale objects.
We generally reject the multiple universes
of Star
Trek as fiction, but
it turns out there is more than a morsel of scientific truth to this popular
genre. One well-known aspect of quantum physics is that observations can’t be
predicted absolutely. Instead, there is a range of possible observations each
with a different probability. One mainstream explanation, the “many-worlds”
interpretation, states that each of these possible observations corresponds to
a different universe (the ‘multiverse’). There are an infinite number of
universes and everything that could possibly happen occurs in some universe.
Death does not exist in any real sense in these scenarios. All possible
universes exist simultaneously, regardless of what happens in any of them.
Life is an adventure that transcends our
ordinary linear way of thinking. When we die, we do so not in the random
billiard-ball-matrix but in the inescapable-life-matrix. Life has a non-linear
dimensionality – it’s like a perennial flower that returns to bloom in the
multiverse.
“The influences of the senses,” said Ralph
Waldo Emerson “has in most men overpowered the mind to the degree that the
walls of space and time have come to look solid, real and insurmountable; and
to speak with levity of these limits in the world is the sign of insanity.”
Robert Lanza has published extensively in
leading scientific journals. His book “Biocentrism” lays out the scientific argument for his theory
of everything.
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Biocentrism (from Greek: βίος, bios, “life”; and κέντρον, kentron, “center”) — also known
as the biocentric universe — is a theory proposed in 2007 by American scientist
Robert Lanza. In this view, life and biology are central to being, reality, and
the cosmos. Biocentrism asserts that current theories of the physical world do
not work, and can never be made to work, until they fully account for life and
consciousness. – From
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BIOCENTRISM
How Life and
Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
“Any short statement
does not do justice to such a scholarly work.”
Nobel Prize Winner E.
Donnall Thomas,referring to Lanza’s A New Theory of the Universe
The Biocentric Universe Theory: Stem-cell guru Robert Lanza presents a radical new view of the universe and everything in it.
Discover Magazine
A New Theory of the Universe: Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by adding life to the equation.
The American Scholar
A new theory asserts that biology, not physics, will be the key to unlocking the deepest mysteries of the universe.
WIRED.com
The quest to unify all of physics into a “the theory of everything” has inspired a host of ideas. Now a pioneer in the field of stem cell research has weighed in with an essay that brings biology and consciousness into the mix.
MSNBC.com Cosmic Log
How biology is
central to constructing a more complete and unified theory of the Universe
The Scientist
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The Big Questions
We’re taught that the universe can be
fundamentally divided into two entities: ourselves and that which is outside of
us. But you’re not an object — if you divorce one side of the equation from the
other you cease to exist.
What sustains us in and above the void of
nothingness? We can’t see the laws that uphold the world, and that if they be
removed the Universe would collapse to nothing.
New experiments suggest part of us exists
outside of the physical world. We assume there’s a universe “out there”
separate from what we are, and that we play no role in its appearance. Yet
experiments show just the opposite.
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Time and Death
Experiments suggest
we create time, not the other way around. Life is just one fragment of time,
one brushstroke in a picture larger than ourselves, eternal even when we die.
A long list of scientific experiments
suggests our belief in death is based on a false premise. This article provides
five compelling reasons why you won’t die.
Experiments suggest life cannot be destroyed.
According to Biocentrism, consciousness can’t be extinguished in a timeless,
spaceless world.
Life is a flowering and adventure that
transcends our ordinary linear way of thinking, an interlude in a melody so
vast and eternal that human ears can’t appreciate the tonal range of the
symphony.
Can life really be reduced to the laws of
physics, or are we part of something more noble and triumphant?
The contemplation of time and the
discoveries of modern science suggest that the mind is the ultimate reality,
paramount and limitless.
An amazing set of experiments suggest that
events in the future may influence things happening in the world now. The past,
present and future are inseparably entangled.
Why out of all of existence do you get to
be, say, just a plumber or a hairdresser — followed by nothingness for the rest
of eternity.
The mystery of life and death cannot be
examined by visiting the Galapagos or looking through a microscope. Even
Einstein realized this isn’t the case.
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God
Science doesn’t
recognize the spiritual dimension of life. But our worldview is catching up
with the facts, and the old paradigm is rapidly being replaced with one that
can address some of the core questions asked in every religion.
We suppose ourselves to be a pond; and if
there is any justice, it must approach upon these shores. But there are
consequences to our actions that transcend our ordinary, classical way of
thinking.
Ideally, our concepts of nature and God
should adapt to our evolving scientific knowledge. Relative to the supreme
creator, we humans would be much like the microorganisms we scrutinize under
the microscope.
What happens if we project our current
scientific knowledge into the future? A new scenario suggests the evolution of
a new concept of God.
All human knowledge is relational.
“Discordant opinions,” said Emerson “are reconciled by being seen to be two
extremes of one principle.”
Both science and religion appear to be
honing in on a deeper reality, one totally ignored by most people until now.
It appears increasingly likely that our
universe is not a closed system and that science may not be playing with a full
deck.
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The Universe
Biocentrism unlocks
the cage Western science has unwittingly confined itself. By allowing the observer
into the equation opens new approaches to understanding everything from the
tiny world of the atom to our views of life and death.
We take physics as a kind of magic and think
everything just popped into existence one day out of nothingness. But we’re
living through a profound shift in worldview, from the belief that life is an
insignificant part of the physical universe, to one in which we’re the origin.
We’re about to be broadsided by the most
explosive event in history. But it won’t be rockets that take us the next step.
Sometime in the future science life will finally figure out how to escape from
its corporeal cage.
Einstein believed he could build from one
side of nature — the physical, without the other side — the living. But he was
a physicist, and as such, missed what was outside his window.
Evolutionary biology suggests life has progressed
from a one dimensional reality, to two dimensions to three dimensions, and
there’s no reason to think the evolution of life stops there.
Everyone knows that something is screwy with
the way we visualize the cosmos. Theories of its origins screech to a halt when
they reach the very event of interest — the moment of creation, the “Big Bang.”
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Miscellaneous
We dismiss dreams
because they end when we wake up. But whether awake or dreaming, you’re
experiencing the same bio-physical process.
In Star Wars, the bars are bustling with
alien creatures. But where are they all? Despite half a century of scanning the
sky, astronomers have failed to find any evidence of life.
If we could see before the first single-cell
organism, and after the last man and woman, only you would remain — you, the
Great Face behind, that consciousness whose mode of thinking that contains the
world.
Where did it all come from? Why are we here?
Switching our perspective from physics to biology undoes some of the biggest
“facts” we’ve been taught about the world.
Life is more than just the dance of atoms
described in our science textbooks. We’re all ephemeral forms of an
individuality greater than ourselves, eternal even when we die.
We think of time and consciousness in human
terms. But like us, plants possess receptors, microtubules and sophisticated
intercellular systems that likely facilitate a degree of spatio-temporal
consciousness.
Did you ever wonder why people like Elvis
Presley and Michael Jackson didn’t fare any better than you or I despite all
their money, fame, and access to people of wisdom? The answer lies in your own
backyard.
It seems natural that someday we’ll make
machines that’ll think and act like people. However, for a machine or computer
there’s no other principle but physic, and the chemistry of the atoms that
compose it.
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Sources:
Robert Lanza Official Site and Huttington Post .Please note: All quotes are from Dr. Robert Lanza.-
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