The reception to biocentrism has been mixed.
[20] Physician and Nobel laureate
E. Donnall Thomas said of biocentrism, "Any short statement does not do justice to such a scholarly work. The work is a scholarly consideration of science and philosophy that brings biology into the central role in unifying the whole."
[17] However, some physicists have commented that biocentrism currently does not make testable predictions.
[17] Arizona State University physicist
Lawrence Krauss stated, “It may represent interesting philosophy, but it doesn't look, at first glance, as if it will change anything about science."
[17] Daniel Dennett said that he does not believe that the idea met the criteria of a theory in philosophy.
[17] In
USA Today Online, theoretical physicist and science writer
David Lindley asserted that Lanza’s concept was a "vague, inarticulate metaphor" and stated that "I certainly don't see how thinking his way would lead you into any new sort of scientific or philosophical insight. That's all very nice, I would say to Lanza, but now what? I [also] take issue with his views about physics."
[21] Stephen P. Smith conducted a review of the book, noting that Lanza is actually describing a form of
idealism. Smith found Lanza's claim that time is an illusion to be unfounded since the premise was that time was not understood fully. He concludes that, while lacking in scientific and philosophical rigor, "Lanza has a colloquial style that is typical of good popular books, and his book can be understood by non-experts".
[22]
New Age guru Deepak Chopra stated that “Lanza's insights into the nature of consciousness [are] original and exciting” and that “his theory of biocentrism is consistent with the most ancient wisdom traditions of the world which says that consciousness conceives, governs, and becomes a physical world. It is the ground of our Being in which both subjective and objective reality come into existence."
[23] In the Smithsonian Institution’s peer-reviewed “Smithsonian Research Exchange,” Jacquelynn Baas, Director Emeritus of the University of California Berkeley Art Museum, wrote that a major challenge confronting modern times is whether “all questions can be answered by means of the scientific method of objective observation and measurement.” She cites Lanza’s book "Biocentrism,” saying that it casts this perspective into doubt.
[24]
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