Does Death Exist? New Theory Says 'No'

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 16:20:44 CST 2009


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/does-death-exist-new-theo_b_384515.html

Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told
we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that
bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the
terminal event we think.

One well-known aspect of quantum physics is that certain observations
cannot be predicted absolutely. Instead, there is a range of possible
observations each with a different probability. One mainstream
explanation, the "many-worlds" interpretation, states that each of
these possible observations corresponds to a different universe (the
'multiverse'). A new scientific theory - called biocentrism - refines
these ideas. There are an infinite number of universes, and everything
that could possibly happen occurs in some universe. Death does not
exist in any real sense in these scenarios. All possible universes
exist simultaneously, regardless of what happens in any of them.
Although individual bodies are destined to self-destruct, the alive
feeling - the 'Who am I?'- is just a 20-watt fountain of energy
operating in the brain. But this energy doesn't go away at death. One
of the surest axioms of science is that energy never dies; it can
neither be created nor destroyed. But does this energy transcend from
one world to the other?



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