We are used to believe that our world is some kind of objective reality, independent of the observer. We think that life is only the activity of carbon and a mixture of molecules: we live for a while, and then we decompose in the earth. We believe in death because we have been taught to do so, and also because we associate ourselves with the physical body and know that bodies die. And there is no continuation.
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Everything is relative
In the performance of Robert Lanzi - the author of the theory of biocentrism - death cannot be the final event, as we are used to believe. "It's surprising, but if you compare life and consciousness, you can explain some of the biggest mysteries of science," the scientist believes. "For example, it becomes clear why space, time, and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer."
Take, for example, the weather. We see a blue sky, but a change in the brain cells can change the perception and the sky will appear green or red. With genetic engineering, we could, say, make everything red vibrate, make noise, or be sexually attractive in the way some birds find it.
We think it's light now, but if we change the neural connections, everything around us will seem dark. And where we are hot and humid, the tropical frog is cold and dry. This logic can be applied to almost anything. Following many philosophers, Robert Lanza concludes: what we see cannot exist without our consciousness.
Strictly speaking, our eyes are not portals to the outside world. Everything we see and feel now, even our body, is a flow of information arising in our mind. According to biocentrism, space and time are not rigid, cold objects, as is commonly believed, but simply tools that unite everyone.
The evidence
Observation of electrons
The scientist suggests recalling the following experiment. When electrons pass through two slits in the barrier under the supervision of scientists, they behave like bullets and fly through the first or second slit. But if you don't look at them while passing through the barrier, they act like waves and can pass through both slits at the same time. It turns out that the smallest particle can change its behavior depending on whether it is being looked at or not? According to bioethicists, the answer is obvious: reality is a process that involves our consciousness.
Heisenberg uncertainty
We can take another example from quantum physics and recall Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. If there is a world in which particles spin, we should have an objective ability to measure all their properties, but this is impossible.
But why is the very fact of measurement important for the fraction we choose to measure? And how can pairs of particles on opposite edges of the galaxy be interconnected, as if space and time did not exist? Moreover, they are so interconnected that when one particle of the pair changes, the other changes in a similar way, regardless of where it is located. Again, for supporters of bioethics, the answer is simple: because space and time are just tools of our mind.
Communication between photons
Our linear way of thinking and understanding of time is also inconsistent with an interesting series of experiments. In 2002, scientists proved that photons knew in advance what their distant "twins" would do in the future. The researchers tested the connection between pairs of photons. They let one of them finish its journey - it had to "decide", to behave like a wave or a particle. And for the second photon, scientists increased the distance it needs to travel to reach its own detector. A cipher was placed in its path to prevent it from being turned into a fraction.
The photon didn't decide whether to become a particle or a wave until its twin also encountered a cipher on its way. Experiments consistently confirm that the effects depend on the observer. Our mind and its knowledge is the only thing that determines how the particles behave,” emphasizes Lanza.
Prediction of the behavior of photons
But that's not all. In a 2007 experiment in France, scientists fired photons at a device to demonstrate something surprising: their actions can retroactively change what has already happened in the past. As the photons passed through the fork in the apparatus, they had to decide whether to behave as particles or waves when they hit the beam splitter.
It turned out that the spontaneous decision of the observer now determined how the particle behaved at the crossroads some time ago. In other words, at this moment the experimenter chose the past.
Quantum reality
Critics argue that these experiments only concern the world of quanta and microscopic particles. However, Robert Lanza cites as a counterargument an article published in 2009 in the journal Nature that quantum behavior extends to the everyday sphere. Various experiments also show that quantum reality goes beyond the "microscopic world".
We usually dismiss the concept of multiple universes as fiction, but it turns out it may be a scientifically proven reality. One of the principles of quantum physics shows that observations cannot be predicted absolutely - rather, we are talking about a number of possible observations with different probabilities.
In this case, we are dealing with an infinite number of universes, and everything that can happen happens in one of them. All possible universes exist simultaneously, regardless of what happens in any of them. And death in these scenarios is no longer an inviolable "reality".
Conclusion
Life is an adventure that goes beyond our normal linear thinking. When we die, it is not an accident, but the matrix of an inevitable life cycle. Life is not linear. According to Robert Lanzi, it is like a perennial flower that sprouts again and again and begins to bloom in one of the worlds of our multiverse.