in 2007, Robert Lanza proposed a new theory of the universe known as biocentrism

Biocentrism, also known as the biocentric universe, is a theory proposed by Robert Lanza, a renowned scientist from Boston, Massachusetts. In this theory, life and biology are central to being, reality, and the cosmos. The basic idea is that life creates the universe rather than the other way around.

The biocentric theory proposed by Robert Lanza builds on quantum physics. While physics is considered fundamental to the study of the universe and chemistry is fundamental to the study of life, biocentrism places biology before any other science to produce a theory of everything - a theory of the universe.

Robert Lanza explains that what we call space and time are forms of animal sense perception rather than external physical objects. Understanding this simple yet revolutionary idea more fully yields answers to several major puzzles of mainstream science. It offers a new way of understanding everything from the microworld to the forces, constants, and laws that shape the entire universe.

The seven principles of biocentrism are as follows:

  1. What we perceive as reality is a process that involves our consciousness. An “external” reality, if it existed, would by definition have to exist in space. But this is meaningless, because space and time are not absolute realities but rather tools of the human and animal mind.

  2. Our external and internal perceptions are inextricably intertwined. They are different sides of the same coin and cannot be divorced from one another.

  3. The behavior of subatomic particles, indeed all particles and objects, is inextricably linked to the presence of an observer. Without the presence of a conscious observer, they at best exist in an undetermined state of probability waves.

  4. Without consciousness, “matter” dwells in an undetermined state of probability. Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.

  5. The structure of the universe is explainable only through biocentrism. The universe is fine-tuned for life, which makes perfect sense as life creates the universe, not the other way around. The “universe” is simply the complete spatio-temporal logic of the self.

  6. Time does not have a real existence outside of animal-sense perception. It is the process by which we perceive changes in the universe.

  7. Space, like time, is not an object or a thing. Space is another form of our animal understanding and does not have an independent reality. We carry space and time around with us like turtles with shells. Thus, there is no absolute self-existing matrix in which physical events occur independent of life.