The Grand Biocentric Design by Robert Lanza

Author:Robert Lanza
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781950665556
Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.
Published: 2020-09-18T00:00:00+00:00

13 THE FORCES OF NATURE

The universe is the externalization of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Amazing “coincidences” confront us the moment we ponder the universe. But they morph from inexplicable oddities to profound revelations once we fully grasp the intimate connection between the seemingly vast and distant cosmos and our own minds.

We have said that the universe is an information system that is in fact nothing more or less than the spatiotemporal logic of the observer, meaning the self. This alone explains why the laws and forces of nature—which could have almost any value—are all exquisitely balanced in favor of our existence. It is why, for instance, the value of the strong nuclear force is within the narrow range that allows the atomic nuclei in our bodies to hold together without disastrously binding protons together as well. It explains why the gravitational force is exactly as it must be for the sun to ignite, and for fusion to proceed, generating the forces needed to make the carbon atoms that are the very backbone of life itself.

When Emerson asked, “Does not the eye of the human embryo predict the light?” he was perceiving this intimate tie-in. This is why trying to understand how the universe all goes together is, in a way, like trying to understand the algorithms in a calculator, except in this case, we want to understand the internal logic of our own mind, to grasp how its effortless unseen mechanisms construct the various building blocks of spatiotemporal reality.

Earlier in the book, we explored how consciousness works, starting with ion dynamics at the quantum level within the neurocircuitry of the brain, and how that process of consciousness collapses the physical world we observe. Since reality is observer dependent, the spatiotemporal machinery by which consciousness manifests as real-life, 3-D objects and events can in fact be extrapolated in space from the quantum realm to the edges of the universe, and in time until the footsteps of our ancestors disappear into the sea.

Of course, cosmologists have picked up the story of the molten Earth and carried its evolution backward in time to the insensate past: from minerals by degrees back through the lower forms of matter—those of plasma and nuclei, of quarks—and beyond this to the big bang. Indeed, if we could travel back in time, we would probably observe most if not all of those events predicted by cosmologists. But, as we have seen, physical reality begins and ends with the observer. What is observed is real; all other times and places, all other objects and events are products of the imagination and serve only to unite knowledge into a logical whole. Think of the universe as a globe you might see in a classroom—it’s merely a representation of everything that’s theoretically possible to experience (assuming, of course, we were able to get there and survive long enough to observe it).

One of the goals of this chapter is to untangle the logic that the mind uses to generate such a spatiotemporal experience.

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