A fellow Buddhist friend sent me a link to the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/does-death-exist-new-theo_b_384515.html
My friend was all excited about it. I'd never heard of Robert Lanza. But the article in the Huffington left me skeptical and negative about what he was saying. So I look up the author and found the complete article:
http://www.dynamicdata.com.au/biocentrism.htm
On first reading Biocentrism appeared to be very scientific. And Robert Lanza definitely has credentials. But something didn't sit right. So I read it again and again. It appeared that he was criticizing Creationism. But them it also appeared he endorsing Anthropic Bias. So I decided to check what my favorite Darwinist, Richard Dawkins, thought about a fellow biologist. The same day as the Huffington article was posted, was a complete rebuking posted on Dawkins site. Biocentrism is the Anthropic Bias Principle on steroids.
http://nirmukta.com/2009/12/14/biocentrism-demystified-a-response-to-deepak-chopra-and-robert-lanzas-notion-of-a-conscious-universe/
Posted by joeisuzu at December 16, 2009 03:35 PMHis logic escapes me.
Posted by: Nancy at December 17, 2009 02:32 PMDeepak Chopra has nothing on Daisaku Ikeda. Please read,
Buddhist Cosmic Philosophy and Daisaku Ikeda’s Concept of Peace Cosmology.
Daisaku Ikeda and the author is more pretentious than Deepak Chopra and Robert Lanza.
Mark
Posted by: Mark Rogow at December 18, 2009 12:40 PM"Buddhist Cosmic Philosophy and Daisaku Ikeda’s Concept of Peace Cosmology"
is a nice essay.
cheers
Posted by: CL at December 19, 2009 02:08 PMI never saw such a mish mosh of Buddhism and new age in my entire life. It boils down to baffle them with BS.
Mark
Posted by: Mark Rogow at December 20, 2009 04:41 PM"COSMOLOGY is a metaphysical philosophical concept..."
Say no more. Unless your theory is falsifiable, in other words a prediction that can either be proven false or positive, and the burden of proof is always upon theory, it is not in the realm of science.
Well, they say most of quantum physics is unverifiable but it's commonly called science. Maybe it is just secular metaphysics.
Then again science or human intellect for that matter probably doesn't know or explain everything.
Explorations of higher consciousness may not be within the realm of science but certainly the study can be done with varying degrees of scientific method.
If something seems meaningful to me I'll pretend to believe it for a while, if I can, even if there is no reason behind it.
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