Re: FWD: More on Lanza's biocentrism

["Scott E. Antes" <Scott.Antes@xxxxxxx>]

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>i found more
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>> "The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as
>> we have been taught," he writes. "For each life there is a universe, its
>> own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of
>> existence. Our planet is comprised by billions of spheres of reality,
>> generated by each individual human and perhaps by each animal."

Aha!  Now this is different than what I got from the first article Ray posted.
 But it's not a revolutionary way of thinking.  It follows what I said in my
last e-mail and is what I've taught my students for years.  This is not,
however, the universe as a physical entity, but the universe as a concept.
Traditional Chinese philosophy even sees every organism as a mini-cosmos in
itself.  As an anthropologist, how could I not agree with Lanza on this one?
Scott

Scott E. Antes
Department of Anthropology
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5200

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