Robert Lanza - The Grand Biocentric Design

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For those addicted to exploring our role as observers in defining our universe, here is your long-awaited major update. It is as rare as a unicorn to see a major stem cell biologist collaborating with a theoretical physicist to produce a coherent, fresh-new, readable, and clearly illustrated book. Youll love The Grand Biocentric Designit adds new turf to the physics of making universes, and includes solid evidence, at last, that observers define the structure of physical reality itself.

George Church, Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, professor of health sciences and technology at Harvard and MIT, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering (on Thomson Reuters short-list for the Nobel Prize)

The Grand Biocentric Design brilliantly draws our attention to the most important feature of the entire universe: our human minds. Robert Lanza deeply appreciates, and eloquently analyzes, the penetration that our human minds have achieved of the underlying mathematical machinery of that universe, exposing its deeply and purely mental character. In fact, it is the physicists microscopic examination of that external world that most vividly reveals the the grand biocentric design of the universe. This new book brings out the real nature of our universe: for all of us to deeply search for fuller understanding, and for meaning.

Richard Conn Henry, academy professor of physics and astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University, and former deputy director of NASAs Astrophysics Division

In 1887, the Michelson and Morley experiment unexpectedly showed that the celestial aether did not exist. This upended classical physics, led to Einsteins theory of relativity and the atomic bomb. Since then, quantum physics has revealed the decisive role that the observers consciousness plays in shaping the world we experience. These experiments have also upended our assumption that time and space have objective reality. As before, a new theory waits to be born. Biocentrism is such a theory... For those searching for answers to contemporary physics disturbing findings, The Grand Biocentric Design is a must-read.

Ronald M. Green, Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor Emeritus for the study of ethics and human values at Dartmouth College, and Professor Emeritus and former chairman of the Department of Religion.

Even as a child, Robert Lanza believed that living things were the subjects most worthy of scientific study. Now, in The Grand Biocentric Design, his third and best book on the topic, Lanza and colleagues unpack, with unprecedented rigor, his theory of biocentrism through the hard lens of physics. It takes the oddities of quantum physics to a new level, defining reality itself and giving ballast to the seductive idea that time travel is possible, death an illusion, and life, a perpetual flower in bloom. If you consider biocentrism mere philosophy, look to this volume to make the case that science is at its core.

Pamela Weintraub, senior editor at Aeon, former executive editor of Discover, and editor-in-chief of OMNI

In his two previous books on biocentrism (written with Bob Berman), biologist Robert Lanza proposed a bold new theory of the universe, one that builds on the insights of quantum physics to put consciousness at its center. Here, with theoretical physicist Matej Pavi, Lanza strives, in language suited to the general reader, to explain the science behind this theory. Its stark differentness from the materialist view of the universe makes the mind rebel, but thinkers as various as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Stephen Hawking have had intimations of what these writers describe.

Robert Wilson, editor in chief at The American Scholar, the venerable magazine of Phi Beta Kappa, which has published the work of Albert Einstein, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Bertrand Russell, Margaret Mead, and Robert Frost, among others

Once again, Lanza and colleagues continue to guide readers who have a quest to understand our universe. This must-read book is a masterpiece, discussing newly emergent research that answers questions, through the lens of biocentrism, on how the world works and who we are. If youve ever stood on the beach at night looking up at the vast sky with thoughts of how and why, then the breakthroughs presented about reality and consciousness, and the experience of time and how we perceive it, will provide thought provoking and life changing insights on your existence and everything that surrounds you.

Anthony Atala, W. Boyce Professor and chairman, and director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University, and member of the National Academy of Medicine, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Robert Lanza is one of the most creative and brilliant scientists I have ever known. Ever since he became convinced that living things are the subjects worthy of scientific study when he was very young, he has dedicated his career to biology and life. The Grand Biocentric Design is his latest creative work based on his life-long scientific journey, which opens up a new biology-based vista to our understanding of existence and consciousness.

Kwang-Soo Kim, professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, and director of the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, McLean Hospital

The revolution in quantum mechanics introduced perplexing counterintuitive ideas that were outside the realm of human experience, including wave-particle duality, quantization of molecular structure, Schrodingers cat, and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, to name a few. Important paradoxes remain unexplained including quantum coupling between particles separated by great distances (i.e., action at a distance idea). Into this conundrum comes The Grand Biocentric Design by Robert Lanza, with theoretical physicist Matej Pavi, with a unique and paradigm-shattering concept that biological systems are primary and affect our perception of physical systems. Lanza is an accomplished stem cell biologist and original thinker who expands his ideas on the interplay between biology and physics in this fabulous book that is approachable by an educated lay audience. This insightful work is certain to energize our conversations about the nature of the biological and physical world.

Lucian V. Del Priore, MD, PhD (physics), Robert R. Young Professor at Yale University

Its fabulousI couldnt put it down! A masterly tour de force that will change your life. Robert Lanza and his coauthors take on the Herculean task of reconciling quantum theory, relativity, and consciousness. You will never look at scienceindeed, life and deaththe same way again.

Ralph Levinson, Professor Emeritus of health sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

Biocentrism
Beyond Biocentrism

The Landscape of Theoretical Physics: A Global View

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