Biocentrism = very interesting
For many years now I have been leaning towards some form of what is now being called Biocentrism. Biocentrism, in case you haven’t heard (where have you been?), is mainly the view that the Universe and all of the stuffs in it are also part of the same realm as our consciousness. Thus, things can be said to exist because we per
ceive them to exist and we perceive them to exist because they exist (that might be a more complicated way of saying it, or not exactly right at all).
Though it may sound like round-about-talk and gibberish to hard-liners on either side of the fence (religious or straight scientific methodists), there has been a growing support in the quantum mechanics crowd that believes that some things are the way they are because in the process of perceiving them, we set them into a static state.
Mix that with the notions that time and space aren’t necessarily tangible assets but more perceptions in our minds… and you have a real quandary. The trick is, if you care to follow that rabbit hole, not to fall into the trap of complacent thought. It is easy to argue that if the thinking of Biocentrism is true, then it is pointless to continue to ask the really tough questions that science begs to answer. Or to flip the coin the other way, that it is OK to say that it is that way because God made it that way.
I think the point is well taken, at least for me, that it is starting to become harder to explain certain things and their interactions with the complicated minutia of our Universe without considering the fact that we complex, sentient and underestimated life forms may – in fact – add something to said Universe that we have not yet understood.
Now, for the skeptics in the world, there is nothing that would probably dissuade them from thinking this is another form of mysticism or homeopathy… but for the less rigid and more open-minded I would expect that the books might open new doors for your searches into the Universe for you… and perhaps new ways of thinking about existing problems.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31393080/
Wheelers Meaning Circuit – http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.9279
http://www.amazon.com/Self-Aware-Universe-Amit-Goswami/dp/0874777984
