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ethical viewpoint that extendsinherent value to all non-humanlife , regardless of itssentience . - noun A
cosmological theory proposed in 2007 by American scientist Robert Lanza. In this view, life and biology are central to being, reality, and the cosmos — life creates the universe rather than the other way around.
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One new theory -- called biocentrism -- proposes that an accurate understanding of the world requires putting observers firmly into the equation, and that life may not be the accident of physics and chemistry that evolution suggests (Lanza and Berman, Biocentrism, BenBella, 2009).
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Paul Taylor's version of this view (1981 and 1986), which we might call biocentrism, is a deontological example.
Environmental Ethics Brennan, Andrew 2008
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Dr. Robert Lanza and "biocentrism": Time to get out the paper bag again
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Dr. Robert Lanza and "biocentrism": Time to get out the paper bag again
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But biocentrism suggests that this is a humanly created dilemma â'- that the primacy of consciousness, which features in the work of Descartes, Kant, Leibniz, Berkeley, Schopenhauer and Bergson, supports the claim that what we call space and time are forms of animal sense intuition, rather than physical objects.
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Did An Outside Entity Create The Universe? M.D. Robert Lanza 2011
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According to biocentrism, the mind transcends space and time in that they're its tools, and not the other way around.
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Rethinking the Nature of Life M.D. Robert Lanza 2010
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According to biocentrism, that something is the human or animal mind.
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Why Does Life Exist? M.D. Robert Lanza 2011
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According to biocentrism, the mind transcends space and time in that they're its tools, and not the other way around.
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Rethinking the Nature of Life M.D. Robert Lanza 2010
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According to biocentrism, that something is the human or animal mind.
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Why Does Life Exist? M.D. Robert Lanza 2011
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But biocentrism suggests that this is a humanly created dilemma −- that the primacy of consciousness, which features in the work of Descartes, Kant, Leibniz, Berkeley, Schopenhauer and Bergson, supports the claim that what we call space and time are forms of animal sense intuition, rather than physical objects.
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Did An Outside Entity Create The Universe? M.D. Robert Lanza 2011
qms commented on the word biocentrism
The anthropocentric delusion
Deceives by hubristic exclusion.
We’d better envision
A biocentrism
That celebrates life’s great profusion.
March 17, 2019