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Afterlife? It's there claims scientist, tells of quantum physics
 [Bangla Daily Star] Professor Robert Lanza claims the theory of biocentrism teaches that death as we know it is an illusion created by our consciousness.'We think life is just the activity of carbon and an admixture of molecules -- we live a while and then rot into the ground,' said the scientist on his website. Lanza, from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina, continued that as humans we believe in death because 'we've been taught we die', or more specifically, our consciousness associates life with bodies and we know that bodies die. His theory of biocentrism, however, explains that death may not be as terminal as we think it is. It is the belief that life and biology are central to reality and that life creates the universe, not the other way round. Ahah! Solipsism rears its attractive head again! I am reality and the rest of you guys are figments of my imagination. This suggests a person's consciousness determines the shape and size of objects in the universe. If you utter the correct Words of Power you can make the continent tremble. I did it just last week. That's what happened to the Philippines. Lanza uses the example of the way we perceive the world around us. A person sees a blue sky, and is told that the colour they are seeing is blue, but the cells in a person's brain could be changed to make the sky look green or red. But it would remain "blue." Whether you change the words or not. To a Vietnamese the sky is xanh, which is either blue or green, depending on what the speaker wants it to be. If he/she/it wants to refer to the color of the sky he/she/it says "xanh choi," which is the color xanh and the word for sky. At night he/she/it'd call it black, at sunset he/she/it might call it red or purple or multicolored. If it's overcast he/she/it might call it gray. But we'd both be seeing the same thing. I wouldn't be seeing it orange and he/she/it purple. Assuming we both speak the same language we'd be using similar words to describe it. Biocentrism is classed as the Theory of Everything and comes from the Greek for 'life centre'. It is the belief that life and biology are central to reality and that life creates the universe, not the other way round. I think the universe will grind on quite unconcerned when I'm gone, probably sometime in the next ten years. I invite all of you to confirm or deny my belief, assuming you last that long. If all of you evaporate when I cross over into the Great Beyond, then I was wrong. On the other hand, if I'm just a figment of your imagination I can keel over dead and resurrect six or seven times without disturbing your dinner or your beliefs. Our consciousness makes sense of the world, and can be altered to change this interpretation. This is the condition that used to be known as "insanity." By looking at the universe from a biocentric's point of view, this also means space and time don't behave in the hard and fast ways our consciousness tell us it does. Descartes and Bishop Berkely are no doubt chuckling in their equally no doubt imaginary graves. In summary, space and time are 'simply tools of our mind.' Go ahead. Imagine Lake Erie's someplace else and see what happens. Imagine real hard now. Once this theory about space and time being mental constructs is accepted, it means death and the idea of immortality exist in a world without spatial or linear boundaries. If somebody pegs out in New Guinea and I don't hear about it is he still dead? Theoretical physicists believe that there is infinite number of universes with different variations of people, and situations taking place, simultaneously. Many pages of science fiction have been written on this single unprovable theory. I remember one Keith Laumer wrote, where Herman Goering was a good guy. But he was doing a lot of drugs at the time. Laumer, not Goering. Lanza added that everything which can possibly happen is occurring at some point across these multiverses and this means death can't exist in 'any real sense' either. I'd think it could in at least one of those multiverses. Lanza, instead, said that when we die our life becomes a 'perennial flower that returns to bloom in the multiverse.' Some of us wink out of existence forever, some of us are gathered in to the Bosom of Abraham, some of us come back as cows, some of us are "perennial flowers." In terms of actual belief, I lean toward the "wink out of existence" theory, but in terms of hope it's me and Father Abraham all the way. I have no idea what effect my consciousness might have on the actual existence of the afterlife. What if all this is actually real and it's the afterlife that's a figment of my consciousness? What if the Last Trumpet never sounds because my imagination doesn't stretch that far? Or I'm not listening because I'm an eternal flower with no ears? Does Eternity for everyone depend on my belief in it? Every time I ever watched Peter Pan, Tinkerbell came out okay, but I wasn't hoping every time, so I'm not too worried. 'Bottom line: What you see could not be present without your consciousness,' explained Lanza. 'Our consciousness makes sense of the world.' If I'm generating it, why does the universe seem so unconcerned at my existence? Lanza cites the double-slit test to backup his claims. When scientists watch a particle pass through two slits, the particle goes through one slit or the other. If a person doesn't watch it, it acts like a wave and can go through both slits simultaneously. How do they know if they're not watching? Posted by: Fred 2013-11-17 |
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