[MD] Science

[MarshaV]

Thanks Arlo,

John has mentioned Biocentrism and Robert Lanza before.  I bought 
the book but it's still in the pile next to my bed.   It was a good article.  


Marsha





On Jan 20, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Arlo Bensinger wrote:

> All,
> 
> Does "experience create reality"?
> 
> In regard to the "science" issues being discussed now across several different threads, I stumbled upon an interesting article today from the May 2009 Discover magazine. Titled "The Biocentric Universe Theory: Life Creates Time, Space, and the Cosmos Itself", it offers some criticisms of directions scientific thought has gone, as well as opening up some new ideas about where it could go.
> 
> Some excerpts:
> 
> "We humans, too, lie at the heart of a great web of space and time whose threads are connected according to laws that dwell in our minds."
> 
> "For centuries, scientists regarded Berkeley’s argument as a philosophical sideshow and continued to build physical models based on the assumption of a separate universe “out there” into which we have each individually arrived. These models presume the existence of one essential reality that prevails with us or without us. Yet since the 1920s, quantum physics experiments have routinely shown the opposite: Results do depend on whether anyone is observing."
> 
> "The strangeness of quantum reality is far from the only argument against the old model of reality. There is also the matter of the fine-tuning of the cosmos. Many fundamental traits, forces, and physical constants—like the charge of the electron or the strength of gravity—make it appear as if everything about the physical state of the universe were tailor-made for life."
> 
> "At the moment there are only four explanations for this mystery. The first two give us little to work with from a scientific perspective. One is simply to argue for incredible coincidence. Another is to say, “God did it,” which explains nothing even if it is true."
> 
> "The third explanation invokes a concept called the anthropic principle,? first articulated by Cambridge astrophysicist Brandon Carter in 1973. This principle holds that we must find the right conditions for life in our universe, because if such life did not exist, we would not be here to find those conditions."
> 
> "The final option is biocentrism, which holds that the universe is created by life and not the other way around."
> 
> "In daily life, space and time are harmless illusions. A problem arises only because, by treating these as fundamental and independent things, science picks a completely wrong starting point for investigations into the nature of reality."
> 
> "By inclination and training these scientists are obsessed with mathematical descriptions of the world. If only, after leaving work, they would look out with equal seriousness over a pond and watch the schools of minnows rise to the surface. The fish, the ducks, and the cormorants, paddling out beyond the pads and the cattails, are all part of the greater answer."
> 
> "Biocentrism should unlock the cages in which Western science has unwittingly confined itself. Allowing the observer into the equation should open new approaches to understanding cognition, from unraveling the nature of consciousness to developing thinking machines that experience the world the same way we do."
> 
> Full article: http://discovermagazine.com/2009/may/01-the-biocentric-universe-life-creates-time-space-cosmos
> 
> Arlo
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