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The Biocentric Universe Theory: Life Creates Time, Space, and the Cosmos Itself
Discover magazine ^ | May 1, 2009 | Robert Lanza and Bob Berman

Posted on 05/25/2009 1:29:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Three hundred years ago, the Irish empiricist George Berkeley contributed a particularly prescient observation: The only thing we can perceive are our perceptions. In other words, consciousness is the matrix upon which the cosmos is apprehended. Color, sound, temperature, and the like exist only as perceptions in our head, not as absolute essences. In the broadest sense, we cannot be sure of an outside universe at all. 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. This is perhaps most vividly illustrated by the famous two-slit experiment. When someone watches a subatomic particle or a bit of light pass through the slits, the particle behaves like a bullet, passing through one hole or the other. But if no one observes the particle, it exhibits the behavior of a wave that can inhabit all possibilities -- including somehow passing through both holes at the same time.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: anthropicprinciple; anthropocentric; anthropomorphic; biocentrism; biocentrist; catastrophism; faithandphilosophy; godsgravesglyphs; stringtheory; xplanets
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“The question is, “How many contemporary philosophers take it upon themselves to promulgate scientific propositions?”

And why is the discussion limited to contemporary philosophers? There are none of note.”

The reason I limited it to “contemporary philosophers”, was to separate the question from philophers such as Plato, Aristotle and Empedocles who really did promulgate scientific propositions.

(My chidren, who are in a charter school were all prepared when their teacher asked them to name the four classic elements. “African elements, Asian elements. circus elements and parade elements”. They have developed something of a “reputation”.)

I would agree with you that there are no contemporary philosophers of note, which is why I worded it the way I did.


21 posted on 05/26/2009 11:06:09 AM PDT by Habibi ("We gladly feast on those who would subdue us". Not just pretty words........)
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Origins of Time, The Ancients, and Future Civilizations.
hubpages | 5/25/09 | JXB7076
Posted on 05/25/2009 11:32:54 AM PDT by jxb7076
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The Evolution of Religion
LiveScience | May 12, 2009 | Robert Roy Britt
Posted on 05/25/2009 6:03:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2258087/posts


22 posted on 05/31/2009 9:33:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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23 posted on 05/31/2009 9:36:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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