THE BIOCENTRIC UNIVERSE THEORY: LIFE CREATES TIME, SPACE, AND THE COSMOS ITSELF

The farther we look into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves. Space and time are connected according to laws that exist in our minds. Are space and time physical objects that would continue to exist even if living creatures were removed from the scene? Figuring out the nature of the real world has obsessed scientists and philosophers for millennia. The only thing we can perceive are our perceptions. Consciousness is the matrix upon which the cosmos is understood. Color, sound, temperature, and the like exist only as perceptions in our mind, not as absolute essences. In the broadest sense, we cannot be sure of an outside universe at all. Scientists build physical models based on the assumption of a separate universe "out there" into which we have individually arrived. These models presume the existence of one essential reality that prevails with us or without us. Quantum physics experiments have routinely shown just the opposite. Results do depend on whether anyone is observing. Instead of assuming a reality that predates life and even creates it, the biocentric picture of reality proposes life- particularly consciousness- creates the universe, and the universe could not exist without us. Quantum mechanics is the physicists most accurate model for describing the world of an atom. But it also makes persuasive arguments that conscious perception is integral to the workings of the universe.