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Parker Geralds

Biocentrism, the power to create the universe with the blink of an eye

 For centuries man has turned to the stars to find answers to the many questions concerning how we got here and how the perceivable universe we exist in was created, but what if we were to turn our attention to search within ourselves rather than looking into the vacuum of space. The Biocentric Universe Theory is easiest to understand when thinking about it in the old saying that goes, “If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it makes a sound?”. By the laws of our modern day physics it in fact does not make a sound for sound is the vibration on the air molecules being perceived by the human ear but Biocentrism states that if the human weren’t there to witness the trees falling then it never truly fell. One may ask, “ well if the tree never fell then how did it get on the ground?” and the answer would be that the trees perceivable existence only begins when the human is there to witness it. The proposition that this theory is presenting is that the world that is seen by the individual only exists when their mind is there to create the reality. The Biocentric Universe Theory was coined by Dr. Robert Lanza, a medical doctor who currently is a professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He was well known for his success in cloning the first human embryo in history but he now has turned the science community upside by proposing this theory that is essentially every other theory flipped upside down. He has done what none have done before and that is “placing biology above the other sciences such as physics and chemistry” to explain the creation of the universe and that is what makes this theory unique (Source 2).  To put this theory into in easily understandable real world application let us refer to the famous thought experiment of Schrodinger's cat. Imagine there is a box before you and in that box there is a cat, but something has happened in the box that may have led to either the cat dying or the cat remaining alive, now before picking up the box and seeing what is inside one may think that the cat is either alive or dead, but the truth is that it is neither one. When the box is covering the cat the contents of that box cannot be determined because it is not visible to you and because it is not visible to you there is truly no existence of a cat at all. Biocentrism states that the universe’s existence relies on life to manifest it, so in the cats case its existence has not yet been manifested so whether or not it is alive in that box is only determined when the individual reveals the underbelly of the box.  Another critical piece of this theory is that it states that there is no other life form that lives outside of Earth. This is supported by the Fermi Paradox that states that although scientists have made such large estimates for all the life that should live in the universe we have never found any proof. Biocentrism believes that this life has never been found because humans are the only species that exist because the universe is created from life, not the other way around. Without life on Earth the universe would not exist because we are not there to observe it and the universe only gets more complicated the more complicated we make it. What that means is that if we go back about two thousand years to year 1 A.D. the people will look up at a night sky that is very similar to the one we look at today except that they will only see stars of which they do not understand. But when you or I take a look at the night sky we may think “wow that star is burning bright because it is converting hydrogen atoms into helium atoms via nucleosynthesis”, well maybe not but what I’m trying to say is that the universe gets more complicated as we get more complicated because without us the vast openness of space would cease to exist in any form at all.  Long before Biocentrism even existed the idea of Solipsism existed for many centuries before. This is a very simple and unevolved version of the Biocentric Universe that differs in the way that it is “the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist” anywhere and all other existence is just a projection of your brain (Source 1). This sounds ridiculous to most and that may be the cause for it not getting any real attention from the scientific community but there is a very simple way to prove that it is the reality we live, and that is with this question, how can an individual know that another consciousness exists without having experienced that other life at the same exact time. In simpler terms I nor anyone else can be sure that alternate consciousness’s exist other than their own because they will only experience the one that they are currently living. This has been a controversial part of the theory because although it cannot be disproved people do not want to believe that they create the reality they live, because it would mean that their entire physical life has essentially been a figment of their own imagination. Solipsism is not a core part of the Biocentric Universe theory but it is largely like it.  This theory, while hard to believe in the minds of most physicists, does have backing in a science that is accepted widely and that is quantum mechanics. In quantum mechanics it is stated that a particle can be in numerous places at one time until its position is measured. This reflects in Biocentrism in that the theory states that particles do not exist unless you are there to experience it and create it, which is the equivalent to the measuring in quantum mechanics. There are very many astonishing ideas that go along with this theory such as when you blink the universe ceases to exist until you open your eyes. From this we can imagine that the long period of closing our eyes that we call sleep is just a brake for our mind from projecting the universe that we experience everyday. Its as if our mind is the bulb of the projector and when you leave it on too long the bulb gets hot, in humans that translates to the feeling of tiredness so we need to give it a break and turn the bulb off for a little while. Another part of this theory that is likely to send your mind spinning is that every single one of us has the power to create a fully functioning universe in our minds, and we do so in a way that makes it seem that life goes by without a single glitch in the system. This shows how our brains and minds have the capabilities of doing things that no computer has ever been able to do with such efficiency and no computer ever will.  Biocentrism is beginning to gain popularity in the scientific community for its simplicity to explain and understand. Not many years ago this theory was a seen as a joke but it is now being known as the third ideology of how the universe and life came to be. It stands up there with Creationism and the idea that the universe created life randomly like in models such as the Big Bang. Although it is not well known in the majority of people in the world it will undoubtedly surface and make its mark, in the same form of manner that the Big Bang theory once did.

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