Robert Lanza - What are space and time?

This is an excerpt from the interview with Robert Lanza featured in the 3DVD set "Science and Nonduality Anthology Vol.2". In this clip Robert Lanza talks about the fundamental assumptions in science about space and time. www.scienceandn...

[@johnbrown1314]

A brilliant gem! Creatively and appealingly composed...thank you SAND. I wish Robert had taught in my school 50 years ago, I value his interpretations, Biocentrism is the key to understanding consciousness!!!!!

[@davidpt]

It's still a very early theory and there's many holes in it, but surely it can only bring us closer to the understanding of the self and the universe

[@jayherring3227]

One of the most underrated authors of this era. Biocentrism should be studied by everyone interested in contemporary TOE's

[@Wolf37152]

I want to see more videos of Dr. Lanza and his teaching. I've read his book, Biocentrism and would welcome a chance to see him speak live or appear in a question and answer forum. There is a lot to be considered and learned here; I think we need to pay attention. Imagine if he is one dailed hailed as the genius who brought us reality?

[@GloriaStowers]

Well, we all know Dr. Landry is a brilliant man. I'm delighted, finding his work on Bio-centrism. And with so much information to understand, I'm now in my third reading of all three books in that series. Dr. Lanza is undoubtedly today's Einstein as Lanza found what Einstein looked so hard for - The Theory of Everything! It will probably be a few future generations before Bio-Centrism becomes main stream and taught in our schools. and yes, Dr. Lanza should make some new videos for all of us. it would certainly help introduce his cwork to the public, and give him a much wider audience. Perhaps 6 or8 videos, and then questions and answers. Let it shine Dr. Lanza!

[@laliepop61]

As a student of Seth and Abraham Hicks, this all adds up. Intuitively I have always known there is an intersection between science and spirituality. They are in fact one.

[@dixon62]

I really enjoy Lanza's ideas, thank you for posting this.

[@Larsanator]

What he is saying is Matter is dependent on life. Whereas before we believed Life is dependent on matter. Experiments such as the Dual Slit experiment show that the Behavior of Light depends on observation, therefore it is the observation that matters. However I don't see that the "Observer" has to be Biological. Mechanical devices are used all the time to observe, so our "Observer" may very well be a device keeping a trend on a SCADA node somewhere.

[@jamieanderson7757]

+Larsanator You're right, the model does not require a conscious entity for there to be observation. And the model requires no interface with a conscious entity anywhere in the information chain.

[@scotthurley5168]

+Larsanator thanks for posting this, it sounds like you're saying that it doesn't have to be consciousness doing the observing which could disprove that consciousness creates the world, which lanza seems to be saying. But, on the other hand, human mechanisms are designed around our consciousness, the data is meant to be interpreted by our human consciousness, it's got our subjectivity built into it to a degree...does that make a difference? I hope we get to find out with more studies

[@RobbFord]

I would have loved to have had him as my science teacher. Now at age 60, I have read all three of his books, discerning and ubnderstanding what I can with my grade 10 physics!! ( He does an amazing job in presenting complicated QT to the average layman,.) Great books!! Interesting theory. But hey, what do I know!!?? What is it that we all know??

[@MattLocker93]

I just discovered Robert like an hour ago, and his theory on death is exactly what I've always believed. This guy has some interesting views and they're really understandable. Especially his theory on religion. Which all religion is just simple explanations for everything, created by simple-minded people who lived thousands of years ago. Hence the increasing amount of non-believers since science started to disprove a lot of religious theories.

[@oscar3490]

Hello there. How are you today? How has your journey through life been going? Take care 😊

[@jacklondon295]

I thought his explanations were clear, cogent, and fascinating. Agree or disagree, Lanza is an accomplished scientist who is actively involved in very serious and profound genetic research.

[@John4707]

Sorry, you must be much smarter than I. Further, the guy sets up this straw man argument about what "other scientists" think then knocks it down with his proud ideas. If he is involved in genetic research that is all well and good. But his BioCentrism smacks at "int

[@John4707]

John Duncan "intelligent design"

[@ValarMorghulis...]

Bruce Josloff Yes, he is very accomplished and very smart but the woo woo can't be explained - he simply proposes it as an open ended question... If it helps people to believe in life after death (that's the ultimate charade) then it's fine by me. Just don't life after death me while I'm living...

[@martinherald6492]

+Valar Morghulis I don't know about how smart he is... The odds of us being alive here today are astronomical? Pick any day and year out of the calendar, the odds are still astronomical. Also, he proposes that reality is formed from conscious thought and goes further with that unproven assumption, therefore time as well, all based upon latter versions of the two slot test. But of course, there can be not other explanation! These guys demonstrate what a religion, developed in this day and age, would look like.

[@razedWrong]

He has me on his side for this awesome theory based on his experiments. that can prove what he is talking about.

[@demonhunterftw1]

It is incredible, I have always been contemplating the very same thing...

[@mex755]

Donovan Delaney I think a lot of people avoid thinking about their. I find this fantastic and no less logic for me. In fact it makes more sense that thing just coming from nowhere, i.e. the big bang

[@infinitewisdom4557]

I might as well accept, that this is all just a dream. Thanks doctor!

[@elecblue881]

Lanza is a very normal down to earth guy from where I went to University. He is Just super Bright and has a gift of - at times - being outside of himself viewing our existence objectively. Dogmatic Ridged not so bright academics hate him. One more reason to listen and learn.

[@stephenpolwart393]

We cannot see a wave of probability any more than we can see our no thoughts.. Probability and possibility is no existence from our perspective. WE bring existence to light through our observation or projection or dream and enterpret it has real.. who am "I" the observer? To me that's the real question. Thanks Dr. Lanza for tackling this , it 's been sidetracked and ignored for too long!

[@KarinaLicursi]

So if we create ourselves then everyone and everything is "god". The main reason why religion existed for a time then, is because our consciousness was not evolved enough to understand that we created ourselves, so we needed to invented something outside to help explain what we didn't understand yet. So all the people right now complaining about the government and the political system, are really complaining about themselves, which understandably would be too painful to accept.

[@yungwhye]

robert lanza is great im reading his book now!!

[@ForPropertyInvestors]

I found someone that believes what I thought. And it's a qualified scientist. I thought there wasn't another humen being on the plant.

[@summer-time6717]

Same here, in 2020 though. Hello

[@ibperson7765]

Maybe youre on the plant

[@GUPTAYOGENDRA]

Space is the idea of division in that which is not divisible and Time is the idea of change in that which is changeless.

[@positive.juice.apartment]

another thing ive thought about since i was a kid... temperature could technically expand cold and hot infinitely... the fact that we live in a range where temperature is perfect for life makes no sense. do have a x-out-of-infinity probability is paradoxical. consciousness is not in the brain, we wont find that there.

[@takencareofbidness]

I also have always been critical of the explanations I got when I was studying physics. I just wish we understood things as they really are. I applaud Lanza's efforts to figure this out and hope someday we not only figure it out but can apply our knowledge to solving our problems. A little pushback though...He's indicated many times that dreams are indistinguishable from reality. I've never heard of anybody having dreams that vivid. My conclusion is that's simply not true for anyone, including Lanza.

[@lisaragan3691]

I’ve had dreams that vivid. 👍For sure God’s best blessings all ways in Yahshua’s name hallelujah amen

[@tarraanntulla9260]

I 💛 Robert Lanza. Finally my theory has been expressed!

[@Patricia-vd9xh]

The great traditions of meditation practices teach this same understanding. It is metaphorically described in much of the sacred literature. The practice of meditation enables a person to experience this rather than just believe it.

[@kokomanation]

we probably live in a simulation and we possibly live the same life over and over infinite times we already know our possible future what can happen will happen when a person dies the universe ends for him, consciousness is individual and biocentric

[@MrAkshay8opeth]

+chris kokolios probably the best part living over and over again is you don't remeber! even if we find out! we get used to the idea! and get comfortable with it!

[@kokomanation]

i kind of have predicted some of my future and avoided some dangers it is something like a sensation that something bad is going to happen some dangerous deja vu feeling or that a person may seem dangerous to you and you can avoid such people it is really weird i cannot explain it scientifically

[@MrAkshay8opeth]

chris kokolios i know! i understand! i have them too!

[@emmanuellegianella4991]

How you know that wen a person die the universe end for him? U just assume , ignore and u are not open to learn ...he is one of the recognized best scientist and you????

[@bubba101010]

Re 2:30 Why does no one seem to posit that the reason for the goldilocks universe is that there have been trillions and trillions of universes that have come and gone and this one is the one that happened to support the conditions for life and spawned us…it’s the only universe we are a part of so it’s the only universe we’re aware of.

[@polymyxa8233]

I would use a different example to explain it. Let's us say there is a RED flower in front of us. Is it really a RED flower? You probably will say Yes. Majority of people would say Yes, too. But color-blind people would say No or Not sure. Your dog probably would disagree with you too. In the insect world, many are capable of seeing beyond the visible light spectrum. These insects would probably give a completely different answer to all the above. So what really is this so-called RED flower? Do we really know? It all depends on who the observer is and its capabilities.

[@SmartStr33t]

5:13 what experiment is he referencing here?

[@jesussalas4974]

I wrote this as a reply but wanted to make it a comment to get a reply. What I get from all of this (and bear this in mind I've read his book so if I bring up info not in the video sorry in advance) is that all of our consciences are linked (sort of like those entangled particles that acted as if their was no space between them) and all "matter" or whatever you want to call it is one giant clump but through our individual brains we can "see" that their is a world around us, and create space in our minds to make it convenient for life.(which adds to the premise of biocenteism which is that the observer creates everything) I'm having a little trouble putting my thoughts into words so bare with me. If I were to punch a friend on the arm, then all that's really happening is our two consciences reacting to say that our "bodies" collided at this specific point. There really is no space and we're all just walking around in our own brain but still linked to each other somehow. But that's where I get stuck. The "somehow" are we all just one but can somehow act independently. Or are we even acting independently?

[@lindasimmons1258]

Our consciousness creates the universe

[@Huskydoggg]

And the universe creates our consciousness. 🙂

[@dominikknapik7990]

Once i had a dream i woke up got ready made breakfast went to school then second alarm woke me up..dream in a dream

[@lisaparis684]

I used to have those on a regular basis. I once had two dreams simultaneously, which was bizarre. Two different narratives, with all the action, sight, sound, etcetera, but impossible to describe because once I try to picture what was happening, one dream gets mixed up with the other. That tells me the brain really is a limiting, filtering mechanism so we can function in this reality. But when consciousness is freed from the brain (as in sleep, or under anesthesia or during and NDE), our perceptions are unlimited. One other strange dream - being able to see without eyes. I could see, but the WAY I was seeing was not the way we normally experience sight. Impossible to describe accurately.

[@milosmiletic2636]

@@lisaparis684 It happened to me 4-5 times in a row

[@lisaparis684]

@@milosmiletic2636 I wish I could have more. Very cool, very interesting.

[@alloneword154]

Row, row, row, your boat......

[@HigherThanTrump]

i've heard him a few times in his interviews, and his coast2coast interviews are more indepth, but he doesn't think death even exists.. he thinks that when you die "time just restarts, whatever you wanna call it; some people call it reincarnation" is sort of what he says on coast2coast, sry i didn't have the video open to quote him exactly

[@boomerz2478]

‘Take our sense of sight, for example: we see a wide world before us, wondrously filled. But in fact, we see all that only in our own interior. In other words, there is a sort of a photographic machine in our hindbrain, which portrays everything that appears to us and nothing outside of us.’ Yehuda ashlag introductionto the book of zohar

[@mace9930]

My take on this video is this: energy events are either perceived as separate, or united. When we manage to successfully unite events, time is simultaneous, as a confluence. When we perceive them as separate, time passes incrementally. The difficulty in seamlessly uniting the parts may be the entire problem. How the pieces of the puzzle fit together is therefore the dilemma. We get distracted, fail to see how the parts fit together, and therefore observe time as passing sequentially. We have moments of unification, where time appears to slow down and is closer to simultaneous, but these are probably infrequent. As we age, time passes more quickly because the two hemispheres of the brain begin to separate, there is therefore less connection between the two halves. When we are younger, unification is stronger between the two halves, as evidenced by the corpus callosum, the interlink between left and right hemispheres in the brain. Time passage is a processing problem, uniting seemingly disparate entities enables simultaneous time to manifest. Once the puzzle pieces are united, incremental time evaporates, and time freezes. Everything may be connected ultimately, but just what this may be is so far unknown to us. An "intelligence deficit" problem. Humans create time, through their own shortcomings and disconnect from Nature.

[@vanimkosaraju2745]

Time is a relative factor . It can be measured with reference to some thing else . For instance, the rotation of Earth . It ' s rotation is measured with reference to some point . Similarly revolution . If we don't have a reference we can not measure it . Each planet has its own time in relation to the distance from the sun . Thus time varies , and it is not real . Its really tool . Similarly space also . As soon as we create a boundary space is created . Once we remove the boundary space does not exist . Thanks Robert lanza. 3 years back I used to believe in relativity theory . But it came to my mind as below : What if there is no space and speed ? Will time vanish ? What causes the changes in the universe and creatures ? What controls the growth and destruction of trees and all creatures ? Is it the same 4 th dimension Time ? Time also must be an energy 🤔

[@JB-ip7vr]

But say you put a brick in the middle of the room, and walked out of the room. When you walk back in the brick is still there. There is something else holding it there apart from your mind. I understand that this is all only existing in our mind but there must be at least some external constraints.

[@Ed-ye3gt]

What experiment is Robert referring to where the photon's past is changed in the present after navigating the fork in the road?

[@emmanuellegianella4991]

...Good thank you Prof.Lanza..... But oh Boy ..so many people just blablabla ........for the New York Times he is 1 of the 3 Best scientist alive in the intere globe.... You guys what Is your status???? Ummmh some umility sometimes ????

[@roye6961]

and what is your status? you cant appeal to authority in proving something right

[@claudegray2759]

The New York Times... You know most of the people who criticise Lanza are actual physicists? Becuase he's talking utter horseshit

[@laxlvrfx]

What and why the decay and termination of individual consciousness ? What is the residual ? what we take away from shared experiences , say mutual love , what we gain from teachers or what we leave behind after we are gone , art and architecture and inquiries into the nature of our relative reality .ideas passed to others .

[@empyrionin]

Since many things can be said which can be false or true, but, there being no way to tell which, many scientists and people, myself included, don't bother with those ideas or theories for which we can't tell, instead limiting ourselves to what we can feasibly prove. In order to be regarded as a valid theory by the mainstream, it needs to have a mechanism for testing it according to the scientific method. Until it has one, most rightfully won't bother with it.

[@tonybparalegal]

1-Light waves move through space as particles/waves, the frequency of which we interpret/differentiate as colors. A 'construct' is a cognitive tool created to understand the relation of things that exist. But, the construct doesn't 'actually' exist like 'numbers' or 'collective'. The light moving through space actually exist. It is not a 'construct.' 2-The fact that mathematicians have not reconciled the laws of astrophysics to quanta, does not mean there is anything wrong with either system.

[@olusha]

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana Groucho Marx

[@cosmopsyche]

Space flight is like impossible

[@victorciornei4813]

This video demonstrates that time is relative... it is written on the bottom bar of the video window that the video lasts 12:19 minutes but in fact it lasts only 7:15 :P

[@adriasorensen2249]

This is rather interesting because there was one time when I was playing around with a glitter vortex lamp that changed colors and put mirrors around so that you could see 3 or 4 mirror reflections of the vortex lamp by reflecting a mirror image of the mirror image of the mirror image of a vortex lamp and then played taking photos of it and videos through a kaleidoscopic prism scope, diffraction grating film, etc. Well, somehow the different reflections of the one and only color changing vortex lamp I had in that room was 2 different colors in some of the videos and photographs I took of it

[@Faeriewylde]

I don't mean determinism, for it is us doing the determining. It is we ourselves, free will and all, who are writing/have written/will write the book. In other words we are on a conscious level writing the book (which is already written) with the fabric of our lives as the medium. The absence of time is a very hard concept to grasp because everything we do is ensconced within time concepts, yet this to me is the definition of eternity: not endless time, but the complete absence of it.

[@williamwimbourne856]

I love this guy.

[@williamridenour5372]

Does each observer exist within it's own reality?

[@startup_without_filters]

no, CONSCIOUSNESS ITSELF creates the universe and experiences its creation through the senses of ALL biological creatures

[@Peternicklas]

To start e.g. something like the Big Bang there has to be some kind of information to set the initial rules for the evolution of the universe and the very birth of the first matter particles. This initial information must of course then be of immaterial consistency. If one lock at immaterial information as some kind of consciousness then all matter must have evolved from consciousness.

[@Uri1000x1]

Fascinating at least for those wanting to see why Lanza would be wrong or why he says it could be right.

[@PlasticFate]

In my mind, Robert is doing everything to figure this out.

[@anacurry222]

The video blackens at about 7 minutes. Anyone else having problems viewing or can direct me to the full video?

[@ggggatman45]

@str3ber Thank you for articulating this the way I wanted to.

[@mace9930]

Entangled particles are instances of interconnection and unification.

[@RF-fi2pt]

We have notion of Space because exists Objects and we have notion of Time because exists Movement. As a person diving in a complete dark sea and balanced lost the spacial coordinates, but have conscience of passing time. Also when we have at least one electron spining one nucleus we have maybe the minimum to count time and space (by the movement of electron and the space between these two objects).

[@oldglory1893]

According to NASA and it's Spitzer Space Telescope observations, Space itself is pulling apart at the seams, expanding at a rate of 74.3 plus or minus 2.1 kilometers (46.2 plus or minus 1.3 miles) per second per megaparsec (a megaparsec is roughly 3 million light-years). How does this expansion acceleration effect dark energy, dark matter and time?

[@dekal1]

Yes it's quite possible that each observer carries his own universe. Since space and time can support an unlimited ammount of life forms based on physical limitations, that means space and time can support an infinite amount of universes. Each observer with his own. People need to grasp what he is saying about space and time being external matricies with no properties

[@MaiMashini]

AH ... Imagine ...In all simplicity ...I I could go back and change ..what had happened .. stop the school bus from hitting my daughter's car and causing her death ..I I can change time go back and hug her or look in her eyes to tell her I loved her one more time ..Imagine ... If I can defy time ...change it bend it ..erase all the tears and create everlasting happiness just imagine ... how wonderful physics and biology can go hand in hand if we can create quantum happiness everlasting

[@scienceandnonduality]

Sure you can... :-) THANKS!

[@J43RH]

Is it possible that intelligent life in our universe created this universe and a time machine in the future and we are all currently living in a cycle?

[@spacesciencelab]

I am very very opposed at this idea but if true then obviously I will change my mind but it is very difficult to. He mentions that how can you feel touch these things. But for example, we hold a magnetic but we cannot see it's magnetic field but it is affecting it's surroundings and one can throw some lead at the magnetics while falling and we can see the magnetic field described by the sciences. Another example I must ponder is that images from the hubble space telescope show that space and time curve which be seen in gravitational lensing images. So, it it my understanding that reality is relative is what Robert Lanza is saying here? Are brains like receivers and merely evolved to detect 1 frequency of the many other frequencies that propagate throughout the universe?

[@muchufoo]

I like how he called the duality of the quantum world with the macro world completely absurd. Relativity and quantum physics can theoretically agree if neither of them actually exist.

[@Tmuk2]

I would love to see what Carl Sagan would have made of these new ideas and experiments!

[@MartinJutras]

+Tmuk2 New ideas? Dig into Buddhism, more precisely Nagarjuna's philosophy, you'll see that its nothing new. Dr Lanza does an amazing work of verifying scientifically what was once a theory.

[@emmanuellegianella4991]

+Martin Jutras yes true...but read the Vedic Philosophy even before buddism

[@Faeriewylde]

We are the consciousness, through all "time". We see it like reading a book, for example here we are now on chapter 2013- yet the entire book exists all at once, just as all of time actually exists "all at once". So evolution unfolds in the same way the story in the pages of a book unfolds, page by page, yet it's really all already there, and furthermore without all the pages the book would be incomplete. :)

[@LaurentAtzeri]

Merci pour votre vidéo.

[@davidpainter5117]

Another observation that this theory might support is that those that are the experiences of schizophrenia and psychosis. Are people able to experience consciousness differently as a result of what we define as a mental illness?

[@donnacabot3550]

The laws that apply to the universe /quantum mechanics are the same laws applied to us . We're being made to forget. Time and space are a part of us.

[@sapnaaum2392]

Did anyone else have 5 minutes of black screen? And when I try to move it forward to see if the rest is blank it skips back 2 seconds instead of forward, seriously spooky.

[@sunmoonstars2228]

me too

[@sapnaaum2392]

Lana Van Esch Did it happen to you?

[@sunmoonstars2228]

yes, it was completely black screen til the end.

[@TheCuggsmeister]

Yes.....me too...including the 2 sec jump back. I wonder if we went back in time?

[@sapnaaum2392]

Paul Currie Yeah I was spooked I am glad I am not the only one, I wonder if anyone else will comment.

[@gregferguson1386]

Anybody else notice that the video ends at 7:14 but keeps going until 12:19? I guess he ran out of time...

[@maxavail]

1) Why does the double slit experiment produce a REAL interference pattern if the electron travels on a wave of pure probabilities,in other words NOT REAL actual positions? Experiments have been conducted that clearly show the REAL presence of one particle in several places at the same time. 2) If consciousness appeared in biological beings through darwinian evolution and if consciousness is the one who creates reality,who created the supposed reality of evolution before consciousness appeared?

[@stephenpolwart393]

Back to the probability scenario..is there anything not probable that we can think of? We don't exist in any universe, the universe exists in us!

[@hanspanzer]

1. define what "actually happens" means 2. "separate worlds" just in the sense that there are different sets of natural laws that have to be applied. actually scientist are trying right now to describe gravity (which means space-time) as an emerging process out of the laws of QM.

[@bartgrossman9361]

Is it p[ossible that the observer, rather than creating the Universe, simply perceives a limited slice of what is actually a much more elaborate Universe? We perceive the slice that represents what is necessary for life but that doesn't mean that what we experience is all there is.

[@georgegrubbs2966]

You don't ask, "What is space and time." You ask, "What is spacetime."

[@promerops]

Shoot me down if I'm wrong, but isn't this very like the Heisenberg Principle? Let's remember that theories are just or attempts to understand nature and that they remain workable until something more realistic comes along. Newton's laws are just approximations, but they still work very well in many fields of engineering.

[@caspermilquetoast411]

I think people are missing the point. You have to read his books. It's not just that waves of frequency or atmospheric ripples are reconfigured to represent to our understanding visual images or sound, it is the consciousness of the animal observer that enables these effects to become real entities upon our observation of them. The forest, for example, does not exist without you there. Neither does your kitchen or the Moon, unless you observe them. They do not exist until you interact with them in a conscious way, and only then do waves of probability become particles of light in a real sense. Everything is made of energy, there is very very little actual matter involved. And energy is invisible and exists in a state of superposition, until it is looked upon by animal consciousness. The Moon, and everything else, exists as invisible energy in a state of probability waves until the wave function is broken down by our observation and becomes real entities in real life as particles (photons) that become actual objects of our experience. We create the universe, not the other way around. The experiments in the quantum field point this out constantly.

[@caspermilquetoast411]

Also, you have never really 'touched' anything in your life. It's just the "like negative charges" of the electrons in your body and the electrons of anything else repelling each other. Electromagnetic energy.

[@onlythistube]

As we are obviously just dealing just with theories... there is a theory about living in a multiverse, where our universe is just one of many, which happens to have the current set of parameters of existence... introducing randomness easily and again into another theory :)

[@Josytt]

One day we will look back on materialism as a very dark time in our evolution

[@echo-channel77]

There could be another way for the "fine tuned" problem, and that is in the multi-verse scenario, in which there are infinite universes, a universe in which all of these precise numbers is not so surprising. We first thought the earth was flat, then earth is the center of the solar system, then we thought there was only one galaxy, and currently most still think there is only 1 universe, but in reality, it makes more sense that there are infinite other universes out there. Our problem to this point has always been thinking too small, too contained, and with no concept of what infinite really means. "Infinite in mathematical terms is just another construct, like imaginary numbers, you handle them and move on. Infinite in the world of physics is a disaster, sacrilege, dangerous talk. Why? Because infinite gives the authority for any and all concepts, ideas, variations, constructions, arrangements, or even wild crazy thoughts to not only be real, but for there to be infinite numbers of them. If you really want to trip up a physicist, as them what a singularity is. Anyway, the point is, physics is leaning more and more towards the concept of the multi-verse theory, it fits quantum and classical physics at the same time. I would encourage everyone to research the "Many Worlds Interpretation" as it is a theory which is gaining acceptance and is just mind blowing. Here too, it is looking more and more like the idea of death being a big black ball of nothingness just isn't likely, but a pseudo-religion with no basis other than a wicked wild guess. Think about it, nothing in this universe just ends. It is ALWAYS transformed. Considering our mental process is electrical impulses, and the location of an electron is impossible to find and pin down, I'd say death may turn out to be as crazy and new as birth was to us. Either way it's fascinating to think about, and a lot of fun to play with the math.

[@albertomartin4812]

Zane Hovey I agree with everything you said. Thinking about this always makes me happy.

[@carolin3844]

Right on!

[@antoninkrizanic7233]

it's simple, it's always now

[@nathanmarto]

I would love someone with more background on his ideas to answer me this question. Regarding his concepts of an after-life in the sense of our consciousness, one would have to accept that this life is our very first, right?? Or does he imply we are reborn / recycled, which does not really seem like an after-life to me at all...I have I got it all wrong?

[@worldpeace8299]

I have long thought that life was one long contradiction

[@ChrisMichael]

I love Lanza, I just don't buy the "stacking up all time to infinity and then sitting on top" metaphor to prove time doesn't exist. It totally might not, that's just a crap visual: You can be on the side of a mountain and still experience your own consciousness and existence, you don't have to be at the top. Which is not to say he's not right - I just wish his metaphors were better developed.

[@josephinegatt-ciancio1137]

robert Lanza do you have a Maltese contact person?

[@stephenpolwart393]

Well what's new! nice to see science start to embrace the obvious.. this truth has been around for thousands of years.. there's nothing out there! ALL is within! (including the thousands of years) There are no objects out there,no space no time. only an inner enterpretation, a sensing experience, not different to a dream. When we observe the wave of probability, like everything we observe it is an enterpreted as a particle, nothing cannot exist from our perspective, its like dreaming a no dream

[@livingstonest]

Yeah that's right. Possible that multiple universes with too much or too little....ours being just right

[@sankarb1967]

Vedanta!!

[@innerlight617]

Advaita Vedanta yes!!

[@The1SimLash]

If I never read (or experimented) books like Carlos Castaneda's or Robert Monroe's then Dr Lanza would sound crazy to me.

[@empyrionin]

The reason why he attacks like a rabid dog is good in essence. In order to understand ourselves and the universe, we need to think objectively. That also means realizing that our hypotheses and ideas have a tendency to be affected by our human nature - our instincts and the physical construction of our thinking organ - that includes our innate "spirituality circuits" in the brain.

[@Vreite]

Indeed. I'm not familiar with his work and it's probably a shame that this could easily be used to discredit his authority if he is, as you say, brilliant in unrelated aspects.

[@maccabeus3843]

Spacetime is an idea, a form. Matter is a structure. Both, idea and matter might come from a same source. Both are measureble heterogenities in a bowl of divine homogenity and we sometimes call it god. 😊

[@venkays8625]

This echoes Kant wherein he maintains that space and time are apriori , apparatus of perceptions rather than things in themselves.

[@azure7687]

omg I am so glad there is no hell after death, I don't want anyone to have to suffer for ever! not even the most evil human being ever to have existed. Also imagine when technology advances so much that we can experience past, present and future.

[@zebonautsmith1541]

But as we know; space can bend and warp; so it must be more than just a creation of our minds.

[@Nucolx]

french traduction :/ ?

[@rudy6221]

j'aurai aimer pouvoir avoir les sous titres en francais

[@calvinfeng1701]

When biologists comment on physics, I can't help but giggle.

[@bryanhall2661]

When physicists comment on biology, I can't help but giggle.

[@hedgeclipper418]

Bryan Hall when scientists propose theories that aren't falsifiable, I can't help but giggle.

[@bryanhall2661]

Ok the giggle just turned retarded now.

[@hedgeclipper418]

Bryan Hall I think it was retarded from the get go. These scientists who think of their discipline as superior are really a thing of the past.

[@Bri32675]

Lol yea I guess that would have to go with like mostly all of pop artist scientists who are only popular. Example: I think Stephen Hawking is a smart man, but I think he is name dropped too much as that he has made a pretty good amount of mistakes. Although he has admitted to these mistakes at least a bit in the past, he has ran with the ball for a long time and needs more questioning rather than answers. I'm not bashing Stephen Hawking either, but I would agree

[@whatshisname3304]

i m not sure he answered the question as to what time is. Is he saying that space and time do not exist excepting in our brains ? or is this a mis reading of the stimuli we experience . a simplification that is wrong.

[@JohananRaatz]

If they exist you should direct them to the Quantum Randi Challenge, because they could win the Nobel Prize if they think they can prove objective realism in QM: arxiv. org/abs/1207.5294 "article" That article is the tip of the iceberg. If you look into quantum gravity research they are all talking about space-time being an emergent illusion of information. I could give you references on this all day long. Here check out this World Science Festival panel on it: watch?v=PKkiy24LqBQ

[@user-pp2vf6se7r]

Energy cannot be destroyed and consciousness is a energy so no it would not die. As to where it goes maybe the parallel universe thing isn't so nuts and deja vu is your consciousness remembering something from another worlds consciousness merging with yours?

[@shadigif8916]

oversimplification consciousness is more than the energy that produces consciousness it includes the structure and function of the brain

[@hazchem1]

I like his reasoning but surely the fact still remains that in an infinite amount of before and an infinite amount of after where there is an infinite amount of probability then it's only a matter of 'time' before we exist. I don't buy that there was nothing before our Universe. Just not 'something' that we can determine as human beings. For example, there must be something beyond the boundaries of our Universe, it must be inflating into something. There is no such thing as nothing and with an infinite amount of chance....here we are.

[@lumimobb]

That's what I'm saying lol

[@MrLlewtanner]

OK I've read through some comments - take the brick on the floor example, when your not looking at it it 'becomes a wave function' and doesn't exist in that space until you turn around again and see it because it's in the coding that it should be there when you look - the examples below are mostly single. But what about events that happen on the other side of the earth - take a storm that destroys a house - I didn't see it but when i turn on the TV it happened yesterday, and it was real for those people, and their house really is gone. so if i didn't see it, then it didn't happen until I saw it on TV *which was after the event happened* - but it was real for those people who were there. How can it be a construction of our mind and experience when it happened to someone else?

[@itemushmush]

> How can it be a construction of our mind and experience when it happened to someone else? Hi, I am a Masters student of Physics and I just want to correct the idea of an "observation". You are having troubles getting a self-consistent picture of reality, and thats great: thinking critically about a topic is the best way to understand it. Back to observing; what Robert Lanza said in this video about an "observer" being needed to make measurements, and therefore reality was a construct of observers was slightly overexaggerated. In the misty Quantum world; an "observation" has a *specific meaning* to it; the best word to compare it to is to INTERACT. And interactions don't require a conscious observer. I hope this little correction to Lanza's terminology will help you understand reality better.

[@pibroch]

+DT You see its like this: like Lanza said in the video, the mainstream conception of time is an illusion - it doesnt exist. Also space doesnt exist. So you were not separated from the storm on the other side of the world. Their house is both gone and not gone. The home-owners whom you wrongly constructed in your phoney cocoon of space-time have their own phoney cocoons of space-time. Their house is both gone and not gone. If you think I just repeated a sentence I wrote earlier in this paragraph, that is just an illusion - their is no such thing as earlier. So, as Lanza says, measurements of time and distance are just crazy ideas promoted by moronic scientists.

[@itemushmush]

> So, as Lanza says, measurements of time and distance are just crazy ideas promoted by moronic scientists. So 100 years of experimental evidence for the existence of Spacetime (in General Relativity) and hundreds of thousands of scientists (with doctorates in PHYSICS) are ALL WRONG, or Lanza by himself (not even a doctor of Physics, but a doctor of MEDICINE) is wrong? I know which side seems more likely

[@pibroch]

+James Welcome to the world of sarcasm on the internet 8)

[@topbark5]

@James thank you! it was a great question too! i'm just reading Biocentrism :)