Biocentrism

Mr. Berger had this past week an interesting wrap up and interview about the concept of "biocentrism," a theory about the unified perception of reality put forward by physicist Dr. Robert Lanza. The theory, in an oversimplified nutshell,

"is an out-and-out challenge to modern physics, and its inability to reconcile the fundamental forces of nature and make sense of our universe. Lanza believes that is because physicists fail to take consciousness into account as part of their theories. As a result he proposes a new theory, biocentrism, that says the universe cannot exist without life and consciousness."

I posted the following comment to the blog:

Interesting.... Of course, all "explanations" are indeed rational. The possibilities are that there is an objectively real rational structure "out there," that there isn't such a thing and that what science observes is purely the observer's composition, or that there is a single field that includes the observer as well as what is observed. Now this doesn't have to be purely subjective--consciousness itself may well have that necessary and universal "structure" that ties it to the "structure" of what we experience as observed reality. There is a metaphysical question about "the mind of God," or something like that, lurking behind all of this. Science, at its limits, often seems to point in this direction.

An longer abridgment of Dr. Lanza's book is also found here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31393080/.