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Quantum Theory PROVES You Never Die
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12/21/2024
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Throughout history, the quest for immortal life has been long, and so far, fruitless.
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The fact remains that no one can live forever.
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But actually, is that true?
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For our physical bodies, it undoubtedly is.
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But theories abound for our metaphysical selves.
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What do you think happens when our bodies give out?
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What if you knew that you were never going to die?
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Of all the what-if scenarios out there, it's one of the most popular.
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And it's never quite as easy as it first appears.
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Yes, never dying means you can pretty much do anything you want, forever and ever.
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But also, if you never die, then really, what's the point in living?
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We've focused more on the moral dilemmas in past videos, so be sure to check them out
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after this.
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But today, it's all about making immortality actually happen.
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Over the last decade or so, interest in quantum physics has skyrocketed.
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Scientists have unlocked the world of the very, very small⦠and with it, have ushered
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in a new age for things like energy, computing, and medicine.
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More than all of that, however, our growing quantum knowledge has fundamentally reshaped
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what we think life is.
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The theory of biocentrism, proposed by the US scientist Robert Lanza, principally argues
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that rather than the universe creating life, it's actually life that creates the universe.
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What we, in ourselves, call consciousness was actually there at the beginning of everything.
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And it's just that now, almost 14 billion years later, consciousness channels itself
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through us, human beings.
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As such, we've come to view life, the universe, and everything through our bodies, processed
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by our brains⦠but really, to some degree, none of that is necessary.
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In this model, then, our brains and bodies might be viewed more like sophisticated modems,
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catching and translating signals, and converting those into our own life experiences.
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But if the brain and body dies, if the modem is destroyed, then the signals don't just
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disappear as well.
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They remain, and might well be rerouted or recycled into some other host.
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In a biocentric reality, life is the signal.
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And while we may think that it's so reliant on our bodies for communication, it actually
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carries on regardless.
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It's life as we don't know it, but it's life all the same.
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So, the theory goes.
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Lanza's ideas have divided opinion since they were first put forward in the late 2000s.
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For some, biocentrism offers a bridge between the philosophical concepts of life and death,
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and the physicality of it all.
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For others, the theory is still far too vague, with little to no evidence as to what consciousness
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really is.
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In subsequent discussions and interviews, Lanza has highlighted the famed Double Slit
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experiment to back biocentrism up.
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Via the experiment, scientists can show that light and matter can either be wave or particle
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depending upon whether they are observed.
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Consciousness creates the universe, not the other way around.
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Supporters also draw on the fine-tuning problem for further reasons as to why biocentrism
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makes sense.
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The fine-tuning problem shows that there are so many physical conditions to the universe
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that make it just right for life, that it seems impossibly unlikely that we should be
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here in a universe that's so suited to us.
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When viewed biocentrically, though, there is no fine-tuning problem, because consciousness
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obviously would aim for a reality that works.
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According to some, all of this inevitably leads to so-called life after death.
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To death being an illusion, because life and consciousness no longer end with our bodies
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and brains.
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Instead, it dissipates out of us, like a kind of energy, into the rest of the universe,
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of its own making, once the vehicle of a body is no more.
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Again, biocentrism is sometimes criticised for the vagueness of this aspect.
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Although it's not as though this is the first attempt to place consciousness, or a
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soul, beyond our physical means.
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Discussions of that sort go all the way back to RenƩ Descartes, at least, in the seventeenth
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century and the Age of Enlightenment.
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More broadly, still, biocentrism suggests that even the underlying principle of time
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is merely the product of consciousness inside our current bodies, creating a means through
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which to understand and remember.
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Time, and specifically the arrow of time, is then explained as a tool of our minds,
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rather than some kind of higher, immovable quality of the universe.
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And finally, Lanza's biocentrism isn't the only such idea towards living forever,
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either.
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The succinctly named Quantum Immortality Model relies on that other underpinning central
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concept of modern theoretical science⦠the multiverse.
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Developed out of Hugh Everett's Many Worlds interpretation, the idea is that for every
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choice or split that's ever made, a new branch of reality is formed.
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These branches never cross over, but run closely alongside one another, reflecting minor to
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major differences as a direct result of whatever caused the split in the first place.
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Over the years, science fiction writers have had a lot of fun with the story potential
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here, suggesting that huge events could well be determined upon a person's fleeting decision
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to buy an apple or a banana, for example.
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But what the multiverse could mean for life after death is something that science fact
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has pondered, too.
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The basic premise of quantum immortality is that, in a multiverse, there should always
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be a split possible through which a person survives.
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A rerouting through reality, which means that again and again and again, they live rather
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than die.
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The idea can once more be linked back to key studies like the Double Slit Experiment, which
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apparently suggests that all options are always possible, until they're observed and then
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are not.
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Death is still death.
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It's still final, and it's not as though, even in the multiverse, you could rewind time
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to make it not happen.
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But after death, and if you follow the multiverse, it could be that on another level of the model,
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in another version of the endless realities, that particular death didn't happen, and
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life still wins out.
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The question to combine both biocentrism and quantum immortality is, could consciousness
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create not just the universe, but the multiverse as well?
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Can life move between multiverse strands, even if physical bodies cannot?
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When we're gone, will some kind of awareness, a soul by some definitions, still remain?
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And if that were to be the case, then could we, as we are, ever hope to know or understand
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what was happening?
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Physically speaking, death is the end of our bodies and brains.
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Our vehicles for life are no more, and so perhaps we could never hope to understand
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life in quite the same way again.
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Not unless our consciousness were to end up in another human being⦠but that's a theory
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for another video.
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What's clear is that still, nothing is certain.
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Biocentrism has divided opinion in recent times, yes, but it cannot truly claim to have
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cracked the mystery of life and death just yet.
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The same for quantum immortality, which is much more of a thought experiment than a physical
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surety.
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Again, for modern-day humanity, it can feel as though the search for eternal life is an
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everlasting quest.
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And that's good and encouraging in some ways, but not so much in others.
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With or without a meaning or explanation for life, we do all at least have a life to
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lead.
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With emotions to feel, roles to fulfil, and experiences to share.
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There are some massive and fundamental unknowns still outstanding, but until that fog eventually
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lifts, we can all spend our lives looking out for each other, enjoying the good times,
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and savouring the things that make us happy.
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We might well ponder our quantum condition, but life's still what we make of it.
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And remember, it could yet be that our consciousness created the universe.
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And that's pretty special, don't you think?
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What do you think?
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Is there anything we missed?
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