[MD] Biocentrism

[X Acto]

According to Robert Lanza biocentrism has seven principles.

1.A First Principle of Biocentrism: What we perceive as reality is a process 
that involves our consciousness. An "external" reality, if it existed, would 
by definition have to exist in space. But this is meaningless, because space 
and time are not absolute realities but rather tools of the human and animal mind.
 
2.A Second Principle of Biocentrism: Our external and internal perceptions are 
inextricably intertwined. They are different sides of the same coin and cannot 
be divorced from one another.
 
3.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.
 
4.Fourth Principle of Biocentrism: Without consciousness, "matter" dwells in an 
undetermined state of probability. Any universe that could have preceded 
consciousness only existed in a probability state. 

5.Fifth Principle of Biocentrism: The structure of the universe is explainable 
only through biocentrism. The universe is fine-tuned for life, which makes perfect 
sense as life creates the universe, not the other way around. The "universe" is 
simply the complete spatio-temporal logic of the self.

6.Sixth Principle of Biocentrism: Time does not have a real existence outside of 
animal-sense perception. It is the process by which we perceive changes in the universe.
 
7.Seventh Principle of Biocentrism: Space, like time, is not an object or a thing. 
Space is another form of our animal understanding and does not have an independent 
reality. We carry space and time around with us like turtles with shells. Thus, 
there is no absolute self-existing matrix in which physical events occur 
independent of life.

Ron:
Problems I have with Lanzas Principles, Principle 1 and 2 seemingly
undercuts the remaining principles. 3-subatomic particles by virtue of
principle 1 is meaningless. Same for 4. the fifth principle I have a problem
with the term "only". six I can live with and seven, how can we know with any certainty?

Biocentrism, while it claims to be anti anthropocentric, seems to tend towards anthropomophism, 
how do we know what other life forms experience? we only have our own, as human beings to draw from.
Therefore how can any human understanding about expereince NOT be anthropocentric.
The danger and the problem is when it's in conjunction with objectivism.

What I like about the MoQ is that it leaves most of these principles to DQ. 
undefinable and takes experience for what it is, human expereince. It leaves the door
open for alternate species having intellectual patterns but it does not suppose to know what
those patterns are. It recognizes the interconnectivity with all life in the sustaining of lower
levels of the static moral hierarchy.
From what I gather from these principles, it seems to smack of subjective idealism and tends to
project anthropomorphically. Although I do like the central theme of shared biological tendancies
of expereince with all living creatures.

Have to do some more reading on it. But those were my first impressions.

-Ron