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关注 Robert Lanza, Bob Berman合著的<Biocentrism>和<Beyond Biocentrism>。Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world, a US News & World Report cover story called him a "genius" and a "renegade thinker", even likening him to Einstein. Lanza has teamed with Bob Berman, the most widely read astronomer in the world, to produce "Biocentrism", a revolutionary new view of the universe. In this paradigm, life is not an accidental byproduct of the laws of physics. Biocentrism will shatter the reader's ideas of life--time and space, and even death. At the same time it will release us from the dull worldview of life being merely the activity of an admixture of carbon and a few other elements; it suggests the exhilarating possibility that life is fundamentally immortal.

In <Beyond Biocentrism>, acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza, one of TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in 2014," and leading astronomer Bob Berman, take the reader on an intellectual thrill-ride as they re-examine everything we thought we knew about life, death, the universe, and the nature of reality itself. The first step is acknowledging that our existing model of reality is looking increasingly creaky in the face of recent scientific discoveries. Science tells us with some precision that the universe is 26.8 percent dark matter, 68.3 percent dark energy, and only 4.9 percent ordinary matter, but must confess that it doesn't really know what dark matter is and knows even less about dark energy. Science is increasingly pointing toward an infinite universe but has no ability to explain what that really means. Concepts such as time, space, and even causality are increasingly being demonstrated as meaningless. All of science is based on information passing through our consciousness but science hasn't the foggiest idea what consciousness is, and it can't explain the linkage between subatomic states and observation by conscious observers. Science describes life as an random occurrence in a dead universe but has no real understanding of how life began or why the universe appears to be exquisitely designed for the emergence of life. The biocentrism theory isn't a rejection of science. Quite the opposite. Biocentrism challenges us to fully accept the implications of the latest scientific findings in fields ranging from plant biology and cosmology to quantum entanglement and consciousness. By listening to what the science is telling us, it becomes increasingly clear that life and consciousness are fundamental to any true understanding of the universe. This forces a fundamental rethinking of everything we thought we knew about life, death, and our place in the universe.

我在<关于科学与宗教以及当代科学中的神话>一文中说明过, 当代物理学模型中不乏"神话创作", 比如暗物质和暗能量这类ad hoc性质的假设。这里的生物学家和天文学家在合作的著作中表明的立场, 是通向古代智慧的桥梁, 是当下正在发生中的人类世界观的又一次重大革命; 不过, 非常超前, 若是想达到公众对霍金的认可程度, 还需要至少几十年的时间。[《生物中心主义》的中文译本据说翻译得一塌糊涂, 朋友们不要轻易上当。]

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刘云鹏 男,1972年出生于山东章丘。1998年7月就职于当时尚存的中信国际研究所, 2003年12月离开。1992年至今, 致力于通过读书、思考和生命体验来追求真理。曾经热切关心社会和苍生的命运, 直到自己也成为了弱势群体的一员。。

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