A new biocentric theory of the universe...

Robert Lanza just published this very interesting and provocative essay in The American Scholar. He notes that:

"Part of the thrill that came with the announcement that the human genome had been mapped or with the idea that we are close to understanding the big bang rests in our desire for completeness. But we’re fooling ourselves. Most of these comprehensive theories are no more than stories that fail to take into account one crucial factor: we are creating them. It is the biological creature that makes observations, names what it observes, and creates stories."

He argues that since we create time and space as modes of thinking, our grand theories must begin with an understanding of our own wetware. I need to read it again and digest it a bit more before commenting in more detail but does raise and explore some profound and important issues. /dps