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A review by cid
Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe by Bob Berman, Robert Lanza
2.0
This is a topic I am considerably interested in and I found this book very disappointing. It starts with the Biocentric wordlview, then haphazardly attempts to cram arguments into this preconceived reality tunnel. The end result is a cheer-leading showdown between the Biologist good guys versus the Physicists with their damned shortsightedness and reductionist approaches.
The main foundation of Biocentrism is based on quantum theory and more specifically on the double slit experiment - of which there is an excellent explanation (the highlight of the book for me). The author should have just stuck to that as the case for Biocentrism instead of inventing additional principles via circular logic.
On top of that, the book is quite repetitive with big chunks of the author's autobiography, all crammed into 200 pages, which leaves the end product lacking depth and breath. In the end we're left with a "feels good" theory that has no impact on our day to day lives, but is just another attempt at coming up with a Grand Unified Theory which doesn't take us much further past our intuitions.
The main foundation of Biocentrism is based on quantum theory and more specifically on the double slit experiment - of which there is an excellent explanation (the highlight of the book for me). The author should have just stuck to that as the case for Biocentrism instead of inventing additional principles via circular logic.
On top of that, the book is quite repetitive with big chunks of the author's autobiography, all crammed into 200 pages, which leaves the end product lacking depth and breath. In the end we're left with a "feels good" theory that has no impact on our day to day lives, but is just another attempt at coming up with a Grand Unified Theory which doesn't take us much further past our intuitions.