is the head of Astellas Global Regenerative Medicine and professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina.  His latest bo

There is no death, only a series of eternal ‘nows’

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is the head of Astellas Global Regenerative Medicine and professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina.  His latest book, together with Bob Berman, is Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death  (2016).

is an astronomer. H e  hosts the radio show  Strange Universe with Bob Berman. He is the author of Zoom: How Everything Moves (2014) and, together with Robert Lanza, Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death  (2016).

To lay the groundwork, let’s recap the scientific view of death: essentially, you drop dead and that’s the end of everything. This is the view favoured by intellectuals who pride themselves on being stoic and realistic enough to avoid cowardly refuge in Karl Marx’s spiritual ‘opium’ – the belief in an afterlife. This modern view is not a cheerful one.

But our theory of the universe, called biocentrism, in which life and consciousness create the reality around them, has no space for death at all. To fully understand this, we need to go back to Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, one of the pillars of modern physics. An important consequence of his work is that the past, present and future are not absolutes, demolishing the idea of time as inviolable.

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