Robert Lanza: The Theory of Biocentrism, Part 1 | YouTube 18:38

Saying the universe is only there when looked at sounds way too abstract, anthropocentric, and spiritual for today’s scientists. It sounds like Ontological Idealism, the opposite of the Materialism of most scientists. Too bad the experimental evidence doesn’t back them up. Einstein’s relativity shows that all the laws of space and time manifest only relative to observers. Other experiments show us that in the quantum world, space is nonlocal and time is non-temporal. Therefore, space and time only exist as qualia in conscious experience.

So, despite these amazing discoveries of quantum mechanics, science has mostly slipped back into the much more comfortable and intuitive Newtonian world view that the world is real and always there regardless of consciousness. But note that science doesn’t always get it right at first, and some mistakes get embedded for generations (like the Savanna Theory of human evolution).

There are, however, always scientists who are less constrained by old cultural biases. Daryl Bem, a renowned Cornell professor, has followed the evidence and risked his reputation publishing on Psi experiments, while other great researchers are working mostly outside orthodox science, such as Rupert Sheldrake and  Dean Radin. This century old paradigm shift has stalled some, but it is still the way forward for science.

Why can’t consciousness have quantum experiences? Haven’t you ever felt there was more to the world than meets the eye? That’s because there is. Like a sea otter floating on its back who has never rolled over, we are floating in a quantum mechanical sea of resources just out of range of our physical senses, but which support us. We only see the classical world, and ignore our quantum substrate.

Scientific Materialism says consciousness arises from matter (mass-energy), therefore it can only behave like matter. It can never experience, or move, or gain knowledge in any quantum way. But we now know matter itself arises from quantum fields. So why do they still insist that consciousness only follow the classical rules of matter? Because they don’t understand what consciousness is, and they’re being conservative.

Consciousness is not matter or energy, it’s an entirely different thing. Isn’t it possible that consciousness has a nonlocal side? For thousands of years meditators have described nonlocal experiences. Mainstream science seems convinced this is impossible, otherwise they would be doing it themselves.