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Biocentrism

How life and consciousness are the keys to the universe.

Cognition
Are We the Reason Everything Exists?

Robert Lanza M.D. on November 20, 2023

We’re the key to understanding why things are the way they are. Forget random chance—the parameters of the universe allow for us because we generate them.

We’re the key to understanding why things are the way they are. Forget random chance—the parameters of the universe allow for us because we generate them.

Neuroscience
Will A.I. Ever Be Conscious?

Robert Lanza M.D. on February 19, 2023

To answer this question, we must first understand what consciousness really is and why it arises in the first place.

To answer this question, we must first understand what consciousness really is and why it arises in the first place.

Free Will
Are You a Free Human Being?

Robert Lanza M.D. on December 14, 2021

Despite experiments to the contrary, we’re not puppets whose actions are predetermined by forces over which we have no control. We determine the path we take, not outside forces.

Despite experiments to the contrary, we’re not puppets whose actions are predetermined by forces over which we have no control. We determine the path we take, not outside forces.

Suicide
The Impossibility of Being Dead

Robert Lanza M.D. on November 11, 2020

Does death exist? The key to immortality lies in understanding how quantum physics applies to the everyday world.

Does death exist? The key to immortality lies in understanding how quantum physics applies to the everyday world.

Memory
Are Plants Aware?

Robert Lanza M.D. on March 11, 2017

We usually only call something sentient if it responds to us. But despite our human preconceptions, plants may experience consciousness albeit in a different fashion from us.

We usually only call something sentient if it responds to us. But despite our human preconceptions, plants may experience consciousness albeit in a different fashion from us.

Spirituality
A Trip Through Time and Beyond

Robert Lanza M.D. on August 19, 2012

Say goodbye to death, and fasten your seatbelt for a mind-blowing ride through space and time … and beyond.

Say goodbye to death, and fasten your seatbelt for a mind-blowing ride through space and time … and beyond.

Attention
You Really Are the Center of the Universe

Robert Lanza M.D. on May 7, 2012

We go to and fro our little affairs on an insignificant little planet orbiting an insignificant little sun. Scientists tell us that the universe doesn’t care if we—the little creatures who inhabit this earth—are alive or dead. But there’s a problem with this view—a big problem.

We go to and fro our little affairs on an insignificant little planet orbiting an insignificant little sun. Scientists tell us that the universe doesn’t care if we—the little creatures who inhabit this earth—are alive or dead. But there’s a problem with this view—a big problem.

Attention
In the Beginning There Was…What?

Robert Lanza M.D. on March 26, 2012

What came first, you or the universe? The answer is not only unsettling, but suggestive of something both mysterious and inescapable: that you're the template for the universe and the laws of nature themselves.

What came first, you or the universe? The answer is not only unsettling, but suggestive of something both mysterious and inescapable: that you're the template for the universe and the laws of nature themselves.

Dreaming
When You Die, Do You Wake Up in the Morning?

Robert Lanza M.D. on March 21, 2012

The world, it turns out, isn’t the hard, cold place we imagine waking up to in the morning. We scientists are only beginning to pierce the surface of reality.

The world, it turns out, isn’t the hard, cold place we imagine waking up to in the morning. We scientists are only beginning to pierce the surface of reality.

Cognition
The Most Astounding Thing in the Universe

Robert Lanza M.D. on March 11, 2012

The startling discovery that reality is observer-created challenges everything we know about ourselves and our relationship with the world.

The startling discovery that reality is observer-created challenges everything we know about ourselves and our relationship with the world.

Friends
An Amazing Summer With B. F. "Fred" Skinner

Robert Lanza M.D. on February 27, 2012

While driving past Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, the great psychologist turned to me and said “You know, Rob, one day I’m going to be over there.” Now, thirty years later, it’s hard for me to drive by in the spring when the majestic trees are all in bloom.

While driving past Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, the great psychologist turned to me and said “You know, Rob, one day I’m going to be over there.” Now, thirty years later, it’s hard for me to drive by in the spring when the majestic trees are all in bloom.