Is death is an illusion? Most scientists would probably say that the concept of an afterlife is either nonsense, or at the very least unprovable. Yet, one expert claims he has evidence to confirm an existence beyond the grave – and it lies in quantum physics.
Professor Robert Lanza claims the theory of Biocentrism teaches that death as we know it is an illusion created by our consciousness. “We think life is just the activity of carbon and an admixture of molecules – we live awhile and then rot into the ground,” said the scientist on his website.
Lanza, from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina, continued that as humans we believe in death because “we’ve been taught we die,” or more specifically, our consciousness associates life with bodies and we know that bodies die. His theory of Biocentrism, however, explains that death may not be as terminal as we think it is.
Lanza’s theory of Biocentrism and the afterlife:
Biocentrism is classed as the theory of everything and comes from the Greek for “life center.” It is the belief that life and biology are central to reality and that life creates the universe, not the other way around. Lanza uses the example of the way we perceive the world around us. A person sees a blue sky, and is told that the color they are seeing is blue, but the cells in a person’s brain could be changed to make the sky looked green or red.
Our consciousness make sense of the world, and can be altered to change this interpretation. By looking at the universe from a biocentric’s point of view, this also means space and time don’t behave in the hard and fast ways are consciousness tells us it does. In summary, space and time are “simply tools of our mind.”
Once this theory about space and time being mental constructs is accepted, it means death and the idea of immortality exist in a world without spatial or linear boundaries. Theoretical physicists believe that there is infinite numbers of universes with different variations of people, and situations taking place, simultaneously.
Lanza added that everything which can possibly happen is occurring at some point across these multi-verses and this means death can’t exist in “any real sense” either.