It only exists in human consciousness
A book called "Biocentrism: Life and Consciousness - Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe" was published in the USA. The message about this excited the Internet, as it was accompanied by assurances that life does not end with the death of the body, but continues forever. And the author of the book - scientist Robert Lanza - has no doubt about it.
Out of time and space
Lanza is a Regenerative Medicine Specialist and Scientific Director of Advanced Cell Technology. Previously, he was known for his research in the field of stem cells, he has several successful experiments on the cloning of endangered animal species.
But a few years ago, the scientist became interested in physics, quantum mechanics and astrophysics. From this explosive mixture, the theory of a new biocentrism was born, the preacher of which the professor became.
According to the theory of death, no. She is an illusion that arises in the minds of people. It arises because a person identifies himself with his body. Knows that the body will die sooner or later. And he thinks he will die with him. In fact, consciousness exists outside of time and space. Able to be anywhere: in the human body and outside it. Which fits well into the foundations of quantum mechanics, according to which a certain particle can be here and there, and an event can develop in several - sometimes countless - options.
Lanza believes in the existence of many universes. It is in them that all possible scenarios are realized. In one universe, the body died. And in the other, she continued to live, absorbing consciousness, which flowed into this universe.
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In other words, a dying man, sweeping through that very tunnel, finds himself not in hell or in paradise, but in the same world in which he lived, but alive again. And so - ad infinitum.
Parallel to us
Lanza's hopeful, but highly controversial theory has many unwilling supporters - not only ordinary mortals who want to live forever, but also famous scientists. These are those physicists and astrophysicists who talk about parallel worlds, that is, they assume that there are many universes. Multiverse (multi-universe) is the name of the scientific concept that they advocate. And they say: there are no physical laws that would forbid the existence of parallel worlds.
The first to report them in 1895 was the science fiction writer Herbert Wells in his story "A Door in a Wall". And 62 years later, his idea was developed in a dissertation by Princeton University graduate Hugh Everett. Its essence: every moment the universe splits into countless numbers of their own kind. And the very next moment, these "newborns" are split in exactly the same way. You exist in one of these worlds. In one - you are reading this article, in the other - you are watching TV.
Now it's certainly not scary to die
“Our actions are the impetus for the multiplication of worlds,” Everett explained. - As soon as we make any choice, in the twinkling of an eye two are made from one universe. With different fate. And in some of the universes the plane in Kazan landed successfully …
In the 1980s, the theory of the multiplicity of the universe was developed by Andrei Linde, our former compatriot, an employee of the Lebedev Physics Institute. Now a professor at Stanford University.
- Space, - Linde told, - consists of many inflating balls, which give rise to the same balls, and those, in turn, give birth to similar balls in even larger quantities, and so on ad infinitum. They are spaced apart. And do not feel the presence of each other. But they are part of the same physical world.
The fact that our universe is not alone is evidenced by the data obtained with the Planck space telescope. On their basis, scientists have created the most accurate map of the microwave background - the so-called relict radiation, which has been preserved since the inception of our universe. And they saw that it is replete with dark gaps - certain holes and extended gaps.
Theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton of the University of North Carolina and her colleagues argue that microwave background anomalies have arisen due to the fact that our universe is influenced by others nearby. And holes and gaps are from direct blows of neighboring universes on ours. So, there are plenty of places - other universes, where a soul could fly, according to the theory of new biocentrism -. And she herself is?
Professor Stuart Hameroff of the University of Arizona has no doubts about the existence of the eternal soul. Last year, he said that he had found evidence that a person's consciousness does not disappear after his death.
According to Hameroff, the human brain is a perfect quantum computer, soul or consciousness - information accumulated at the quantum level. It can be transmitted: after the body dies, the quantum information of consciousness merges with our Universe and exists there for an infinitely long time. And biocentrist Lanza proves that she flies off to another universe. What differs from his colleague.
In Hameroff's comrades-in-arms, Sir Roger Penrose is a famous British physicist and mathematician from Oxford, who also found traces of contact with others in our Universe. Together, scientists are developing a quantum theory of consciousness. And they believe that they have discovered the carriers of consciousness - elements that accumulate information during life, and after the death of the body, they "merge" it somewhere. These are protein microtubules located inside neurons, which were previously assigned the modest role of armature and transport intracellular channels. Microtubules, by their structure, are best suited to be carriers of quantum properties in the brain. Because they can maintain quantum states for a long time - that is, work as elements of a quantum computer.
TOTAL: There is nothing fundamentally new in Lanza's biocentrism - religion has long been talking about the existence of the afterlife. The scientist can only reconcile his concept with it. After all, the role of God in it is not yet visible.
VLADIMIR LAGOVSKY
