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TEAM DRAFT
Biocentrism
Roland Grannum, Lidia Rodriguez, James Vinson
Niesha Turner, Meaghan Mahaffey, Daria Gore, Stephanie Perez
Professor Ricks
DeVry University
Roland Grannum
Team Thesis
One could posit, the relation between humans and their
environments is one which should be symbiotic. Said
environment could be considered one’s direct living area and
span into the depth of space and time. Organisms seeking an
understanding of other organisms existing in the given
environment, preservation of one’s environment through use of
resources at a rate only necessary for the sustainment of a
population as well as replenishment of used resources, and
continued research towards understanding one’s place in an
environment on any scale are arguably keys to said symbiotic
relationship and are critical in the preservation of one’s biome
and the understanding of it.
Main Body
There are several questions that are posed in this theory due to
the broad nature of what it covers. Some of the major questions
to research concerning Biocentrism are:
1.What is classified as a living thing?
2.Is the current relationship between humans and other living

things currently bad?
3.How can we apply the 6th and 7th principles to be sure that
while we carry space and time with us that we don’t use it
but to make human needs and rights more important than any
other living things?
4.Is biology the science to determine the theory of everything?
When looking into the current relationship between
humans and other living things, it can be quite intimidating. As
humans it tends to be a general belief that the treatment of other
living things is on the positive side. When diving deeper into
this relationship, it can be found that humans do not treat other
living things as well as what might be imagined. Instead of just
hunting or raising the animals that are needed for survival, it
has become a hunt for sport, just to take trophies from the
animals.
In sport hunting, humans hunt for exotic animals or for the
largest animal of a species they can find. “Trophy hunting aims
to harvest the strongest animals in a population, leaving the
weakest to pass on their genes to future offspring” (National
Humane Society). These animals aren’t hunted and killed for
food but for trophies. Deer for example become trophy hunts
when hunters are searching for bucks that have the largest and
widest racks. As mentioned before some trophy hunts are for
exotic animals which can also be endangered animals, when
taking the strongest gene pools from an already withering
species it almost ensures that an entire species can be lost
forever because they begin to breed improperly.
When animals are being raised, it is done so in abundance and
not just for the amount humans would need. This commercial
way of agriculture and not community way has caused the
negative relationship between humans and other animals. This
commercial agriculture is efficient for the human food
production but also wasteful. People produce and slaughter
more animals than can be consumed, this is evident through
grocers that have to dispose of these agricultural goods on a
daily basis due to spoils.

It isn’t just the animals that humans have a negative
relationship with. Another living thing that humans treat poorly
are the plant life. As humans in a modern world we are strong
developers, we grow our population exponentially and need
more land to expand. “Humans have long been cutting down
forests for lumber, to clear land for agricultural use, or to make
room for settlements” (2013, T.M. John). People constantly
clear land and replace it agricultural needs or settlements.
Either way the land is being cleared and resources consumed.
Deforestation is a major cause of the negative relationship
that humans have with a type of other living thing. Humans
have been clearing forest for years. “By the late twentieth
century, there were three primary causes of deforestation
worldwide: cattle ranching, commercial logging, and both
commercial and subsistence agriculture. Other causes include
gathering fuel wood, clearing for roads and settlements, and
clearing as part of mining operations” (2013, T.M., John). There
is a lot of information that tells us how the relationship went
from a single negative to a multiple negative with other living
things.
People clear land which is destruction of resources and
then use the land to either over produce on agricultural goods or
cattle, it has been shown that plenty of these goods go to waste
because of over production. Another very important piece taken
from this is that some of the clearing is simply for mining. The
human race destroy forests which help humans breathe and
continue to live to create pathways and areas for mining which
have shown direct harm to humans in terms of either direct
health issues due to mining or being in mining areas or one of
the major known causes is the emissions created by mining and
the effect it has had on climate change in recent years.
Although there are several cases that show how humans
can be so negative to other living things, there is so much
evidence that the animals just want to be here with humans.
Animals have evolved into very efficient and helpful creatures
for humans. “While South American fishermen use dolphins to

help them catch fish, tribesmen in Africa employ birds to find
honey and hunters in Asia train eagles to bring down prey for
them” (2011, Gray).
Through all the negative relationships there are still
positive ones with animals such as the ones mentio ned above.
Animals will always want positive relationships with humans
and just to be treated as important living things no less inferior
to humans. This would seem to be how the relationship between
humans and animals originated, in true coexistence. Humans
now have become greedy and people feel humans have the right
to be more important than other living things. If humans pay
attention then it should be realized to take care of these other
living things because humans are only still alive and maintain
on this earth because of the plant life and animal life.
Lidia Rodriguez
Biology; Fundamental Science of Biocentrism
Biocentrism advocates that all living things have an
inherent value. All living things not just humans but in
particular nature itself have essential purpose and they are part
of an ecosystem. Robert Lanza believes that life itself creates
the universe as oppose to many who believe the universe created
life. The study of life will be foundational for many other types
of sciences in particular physics, when unifying both sciences
with recent discoveries leads to resolutions for pending
questions and problem in other sciences. Therefore, Biocentrism
uses the fundamentals of biology to better understand life and
its co-existence with its environment (Ball, 2018).
Goldilocks Universe explains that the universe was
created to support life. It refers to a long list of traits or
characteristics of the universe that exist at the same time to
support living things (Berman & Lanza, 2018). For example,
types of conditions like the perfect amount of pressure, the
levels oxygen, or even the distance between earth from the sun
are all in place together supporting for life to exist and thrive.
In order to make advancements in technology, we need to
comprehend the biological functions of living things and its

purpose and how this affects the environment or how the
environment independently functions but also supports life
itself at the same time. There is no absolute explanation as to
why all these conditions are in place but a better understanding
of the environment and how life is dependent on it leads to
many advancements including controversial ones that will be
discussed further along. Cosmology as per physicist s can
simply be broken down to its core basics like breaking down
matter down to its elements and components or how in physics
how atoms bounce of each other but recent studies show that
certain functions occur depend on its observer and its role.
In biocentrism, the observer influences the outcome and a great
example to support this is the two-hole experiment. The two-
hole experiment, time after time and with different variations,
proves that if someone is watching the experiment the
subatomic particle and or the light that goes through the slits in
the barrier are behaving like a particle making solid hits behind
the barrier similar to a shooting bullet. However, when no one
is watching, the subatomic particle behaves like a wave going
through both holes at the same time showing duality. Another
experiment that baffled physicist is that particles can influence
each other at great distance like ESP indicating that time and
space has no influence on their behavior (Berman & Lanza,
2018). As Ball stated, “we don’t yet know quite what a physics
of biology will consist of but we won’t understand life without
it” and therefore living organisms play a great role in our
universe and the study of biology will lead to many answers
(2018).
Biocentrism tries to uphold purity in nature and believes
that all nonliving things hold the same importance. Whether is a
human or a coral reef thriving in its ecosystem, they both hold
the same worth and value in the environment. However,
Biocentrism argues synthetic forms of life do not hold moral
standards because it’s not considered natural questioning the
morality of genetic engineering and stem cell research (Rice,
2018). This is a debate in genetic engineering because

introducing genetically modified organisms can also taint the
purity and balance of eco system in existence. These questions
introduce of the ethical issues in biology and technology in
biocentrism like cloning. Robert Lanza who is a well-known
science is an active member in regenerative medicine in
particular embryonic cloning that provides an endless supply of
stem cells with a person unique DNA that can help one’s
immune system, heal damaged hearts, and even help limbs
(Weintraub, 2008). His ultimate goal from a biocentric
viewpoint is to cure diabetes or common illnesses that affect
many people by in hope able to transplant whole organs like the
heart which will tackle the rising death rates of heart disease in
America.
A social analysis of biocentrism always touches on the
topics of ethics and moral standing in society. From a social
standpoint, compared to western ethics has always been
anthropocentric which in other words means that only living
human beings deserve moral consideration (DesJardins, 2018).
Animal welfare, environmental issues, nuclear waste disposal
are some of the arguments of these current times and
biocentrism supports that all living things have the same value.
Upholding purity in nature to make sure no harm to living
things arises conflict in genetic engineering and artificial
intelligence. This relates with what is classified as a living
thing and how advancement in technology can question ethical
issues of synthetic forms of life not having the same moral
standings as natural form of life because its artificial.
Preservationist now are trying to explain the intrinsic value of
natural area and advise the importance of respecting natural
objects. More research is needed on stem cells advancement and
genetic engineering to do a better social analysis on its ethical
issues. It supports symbiotic association because all living
things have inherited value and one is not more important of the
other (Rice, 2018). Understanding the environment and how
there are many traits of the universe that exists or fine-tuned to
support life. Biocentrism continuously touches the social

standpoint of our generations and the importance of the
ecosystem and the influence we have on it.
Interviews conducted with the founder of biocentrism
Robert Lanza and scholastic journals and articles that explains
the importance of biology working with other sciences like
physics to have a better understanding of life using both
sciences to comprehend current problems for both sciences.
Looking further into experience and social standings of
Biocentrism and its fundamental science Biology will open the
doors to many of science challenging questions. Since Lanza
early studies were focused on regenerative medicine because of
those interests allowed him to tap into the many mysteries of
nature. There are more than 80 million autoimmune diseases
like cancer, Lanza research on stem cells also describe how his
research is helping build the immune system from scratch even
when facing the possibility of rejection from these stem cells
being used. Lanza expressed in a recent interview his
frustration with the government that it will not fund stem cell
research which could help many people suffering from these
diseases when the actual cells that can lead to a cure are
currently frozen and not studied (Weintraub, 2008). Exposing
the science of biology and concept of Biocentrism, could
potentially show the world we have many answers to discover
but it is up to us to influence the outcome relating back to two
hot experiment.
To summarize, living organisms from a biocentric point of
view is the basis biological science. When combining sciences
in particular Biology, “scientific ideas developed in one field
can turn out to be relevant in another” (Ball, 2018). The
role of biology in Biocentrism, the ethical and moral
standpoints it faces and how Biology is the first and last scienc e
of Biocentrism truly captivates the excitement of birthing new
ideas and merging other sciences leading to new advancements.
Upholding purity is as importance as how all living and
nonliving things have the same inherent value, which leads to
many controversial topics like genetic engineering, but all of

this was possible because of the curiosity of Robert Lanza and
his biological studies that can revolutionize that way we look at
living and non-living organisms.
James Vinson
Introduction
“Every now and then, a simple yet radical idea shakes the very
foundations of knowledge.” (Robert Lanza) Throughout my
research into the subject of Biocentrism, this statement has
proven to be reign more and more true. Frankly, managed to
remain blissfully ignorant to the existence of Biocentrism. Now
that the cat is out of the bag, I find the topic truly intriguing.
Though there are 7 principles of biocentrism, there are
countless other theories and teachings. It is widely known that
biocentrism is the study of the relationship between humans,
non-human living organisms, and their environments. As one
peels the layers of onion from the rest, one begins to realize
that it is not quite that simple.
Thesis
One could posit, the relation between humans and their
environments is symbiotic. Through biocentric doctrine we are
able to acknowledge one’s environment is not limited to one’s
direct living area but can be reflected in the deep vacuum of
space and time. Organisms seeking an understanding of other
organisms existing in the given environment, preservation of
one’s environment through use of resources at a rate only
necessary for the sustainment of a population as well as
replenishment of used resources, and continued research
towards understanding one’s place in an environment on any
scale are arguably keys to said symbiotic relationship and are
critical in the preservation of one’s biome and the
understanding of it. Throughout the course of this paper, the
reader will gain an understanding of the origins, teachings,
principles, and various ways we as s society can extend the life
of our direct biome as well as repair and mitigate future damage
to those lifeforms and environments.
Through collaborative efforts with my assigned group, an

abundance of information has been gathered. This draft will
outline the research piece for which I was responsible. It will be
used in the beginning portion of my final paper to set the
expectation of what constitutes living things. This will also lead
into the 7 principals of biocentrism as they speak to creation of
and existence of living things.
Main Body and Supporting Evidence
To accurately assess the relationships of living organisms and
their environments, one must know what constitutes a “living
thing.” Though there are many ideas of what constitutes a living
thing, one biologist Bartree states, “All living organisms share
several key characteristics or functions: order, sensitivity or
response to the environment, reproduction, adaptation, growth
and development, homeostasis, energy processing, and
evolution. When viewed together, these characteristics serve to
define life.” (Bartee, 2017) This reference also places emphasis
on the reaction living organisms have on stimuli, arguably
another trait to define living things.
This thought process is even found in grade school biology as
many text books follow a similar teaching. One such text is the
text book titled “Living Things.” According to an Australian
lesson plan for grade school students, “Living things may be
distinguished from non-living things in their ability to carry on
life processes such as movement, respiration, growth,
responsiveness to environmental stimuli and reproduction.”
(Living Things, 2018).
Considering what we know about what classifies an item as
living, the questions now become where do we as humans relate
to an effect other living things within our environments, to what
depth can ones environment be determined, and how can how
can living things prevent deterioration of and rejuvenate their
environment for preservation and longevity? To effectively
understand where humans and other non-human living objects
relate in an environment, understanding the seven principals of
biocentrism is crucial. Image 1 gives the listing of the
principals for reference as we observe each.

Remaining Research Topics
Though the following five to seven pages will discuss each of
the principals in detail, the body will also cover alternative
resource consumption methods to prolong current resources and
reduce dependencies on non-renewable resources. For my rough
draft I wanted to concentrate on the research subject I was
responsible for and set the beginning of my paper up for
success. The closing will be a two to three short paragraphs to
summarize the entire research project and bring all my
ramblings to a close.
Niesha Turner
Living thing is deemed to be any kind of organism that uses
energy within their respective cells to undertake processes like
reproduction, growth, as well as body temperature regulation.
Certain living things consume nutrients via roots and cell
membrane (Bourne, Morrow & Webster, 2016). The main areas
of analysis of this paper focus on the symbiosis nature among
the living things known as mutualism where both partners
profit.
Distinctive features of living things
There are seven distinctive characteristics of any living
thing that aids in their categorization. These features involve
movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction,
excretion and nutrition. All living things move in certain way
that is animals are typically capable of walking while plants can
move their respective parts in bid to respond to specific stimuli.
Respiration is deemed to be chemical reaction that occurs in the
cells in bid to release energy from food. Production of glucose
which is the energy rich molecules are normally broken in a
series of steps in bid to release energy to be utilized by the
body thus resulting to carbon-dioxide and water as the main
waste products (Bourne, Morrow & Webster, 2016). Sensitivity
s deemed to be the ability of the living things to detect
transformations within their respective surrounding
environment. Living things are capable of developing as well as
to reproduce in bid to pass genetic information onto the

corresponding offspring. Excretion entails getting rid of the
waste while nutrition entails intake coupled with the utilization
of the nutrients that normally happens in very diverse means
within diverse types of the living things.
Technology used in symbiosis
The main technologies that are fundamental in regard to the
mutualism as a type of symbiosis include molecular diversity,
Directed Design, Comprehending and manipulating of
biological systems, coupled with Production, delivery, and
packaging (Palmer, 2016).
Molecular diversity technology is driven by efforts to
acquire or synthesize molecular to enable the user to what is
beneficial from the huge, newly-acquired variety pool.
Moreover, molecules in mutualism purely describe,
demonstrate, and undertake prediction of the fundamental
behaviors of the biopolymers and offers molecular models of
the co-evolution, identical structure, as well as co-function.
Mutualism is massively evident within the existing the co-
synthesis of protein through RNA by protein (Bourne, Morrow
& Webster, 2016).
Mutualisms are deemed to be constant, intimate, as well as
reciprocal exchanges where an organism proficient in regard to
attaining certain benefits that are mainly confers those
underlying on a partner, which reciprocates through presenting
diverse benefits. Mutualisms aids in escalating increase fitness,
inspiring robustness, sponsoring of the co-evolution, fostering
innovation, as well as involving the prevailing partners that are
indistinctly associated with contrasting hitherto matching
proficiencies (Di Prisco et al., 2016). The underlying mutual
benefit, exchange of the proficiencies, perseverance,
interdependence as well as innovation mainly characterize
mutualism associations on the cellular and species levels
possess direct parallels in regard to the behaviors of the

biopolymers.
Directed Design technology mainly entails careful efforts
to develop novel but prearranged and exact biological diversity.
Conversely, comprehending and manipulating of biological
systems technology is mainly driven by efforts to attain a more
whole comprehension of multifaceted biological systems as well
as the capability to handle such systems (Palmer, 2016).
Production, delivery, and packaging are technologies driven by
efforts within the pharmaceutical, agriculture, as well as
healthcare sectors to expand abilities for producing,
reengineering, and reducing these processes.
Ethics:
The team has the obligation of upholding environmental
ethics amidst human beings’ ethical association with the natural
environment. They also outline moral obligations in
environmental conservation (Attfield, 2015).
Areas of analysis
Mutualism symbiosis covers a range of areas that ought to
be carefully analyzed in bid to wholly comprehend the way the
topic affects the environment.In regard to thesocial and culture,
mutualism involves the fundamental population growth rate as
well as age profile, population health, social mobility, and
social approaches and social taboos (Palmer, 2016).
Mutualisms are typically the fundamental interactions among
people of diverse species that massively gains both sides and
entails a broad diversity of inter-specific exchanges of the
underlying resources as well as services. The impacts of the
mutualisms encompass numerous levels of biological
organization (Di Prisco et al., 2016). At the person level,
mutualisms offer fitness benefits for interacting partners,
developing novel metabolic pathways as well as offering
dispersal services, and trophic rewards. Conversely, at the
population level, the positive impacts of the mutualisms possess
the potential to escalate population densities over the
underlying limits imposed through resource availability. At the
community level, mutualisms aids in the creation of

fundamental networks of interacting species that affect the
persistence of the prevailing local populations as well as their
evolutionary coupled with the ecological dynamics (Bourne,
Morrow & Webster, 2016). The relatively broader implications
in regard to the mutualisms to that biodiversity are purely
illustrated through mutualistic interactions are deemed to be the
backbone of the species‐ rich ecological communities like the
tropical rainforests and coral reefs, as well as through the way
mutualisms aids in fueling the spreading of humanity around the
world.
Economic spectrum of the mutualism typicallypresent and
project economic development, labor supply and cost of
preservation of living things, effect of globalization as well as
probable effect of technological on the economy (Di Prisco et
al., 2016). Most mutualism entails species like plants that host
relatively smaller symbionts, like bacteria or insects. Multiple
studies have noted that hosts are capable to selectively reward
cooperative symbionts as well as punish cheaters that is when
soybean plants typically direct food and oxygen solely to root
nodules colonized through nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and
correspondingly kill off nodules with unsupportive bacteria
(Palmer, 2016).
Regulation and de-regulation trends of environment,
Environmental and consumer-protection regulation and possible
transformation within the political environment are normally
undertaken by the government in bid to protect the environment
from destruction (Bourne, Morrow & Webster, 2016). This is
purely done through regulations as well legislation by the
created government agencies that are mandated by the
protection of environment.
It is evidenced through social economics that is mainly
embedded in social, political, and cultural behaviors in
Biocentrism, which includes reflections of society’s values and
how the association has evolved with historical setting.
Presently, environmentalism majorly focuses on the essential
environmental concerns as well as related underlying social,

political, and economic matters emanating from huma nity’s
connections affecting the ordinary environment. This makes
Biocentrism to be a fundamental in the biology to be a very
significant topic. Moreover, evolutionary psychology with
supportive evidences on humans’ fondness for scenes controlled
by natural components, advanced rational functioning via
connectivity with nature coupled with natural responses to
explicit natural stimuli all revolves around Biocentrism,
specifically mutualism symbiosis.
Future research
The next steps for symbiosis entail the assimilation of
artificial intelligence (AI) as well as robots into all
environments. There should also be a proper design that can be
used in the predictions for imminent control room inner
designed environments of a human centric design focusing on
calm, unified collaborative workspaces.
Conclusion
The mutualistic interactions among the underlying species
have lately received relatively massive attention within the
fundamental field of conservation biology. Within insular
ecosystems mutualism that is the interactions, predominantly
plant-animal interactions is extremely significant for the
maintenance of the existing biodiversity.
Meaghan Mahaffey
Introduction
Biocentrism has basic principles that help to explain the process
that the mind must take to comprehend that the consciousness is
the seat of all we see and interact with on a daily basis. There
are seven principles that build up to the fact that the mind has
created the elements of time and space and that in reality it is
only our perception and the need to structure and control our
surroundings that we create time and space in the mind.
“Biocentrism comes from the Greek: βίος, bios, “life”; and
κέντρον, kentron, “center” (Lanza, 2007). This is referring to
the biocentric universe in which we reside. Robert Lanza is the
mind behind the creation of this concept and explains how we

perceive our environment. He believes that biology and the
basic human condition is created by the consciousness and not
the other way around. In other words, the world is created in
our minds instead of the outside elements creating what we
perceive. This is a radical thought process and makes me
wonder that if we create our reality that does that not mean that
we can change it in our minds? “While physics is considered
fundamental to the study of the universe, and chemistry
fundamental to the study of life, Lanza claims that scientists
will need to place biology before the other sciences to produce a
"theory of everything"(Lanza, 2007).
When you think about the organization of time and space that
constrains our understanding of everyday life. You have to
understand that you are creating it in the mind. When you take
the time out of your day to meditate or daydream you can in
your mind’s eye imagine a serene beach, the sun warming your
skin and the feeling of contentment in that moment. Even
though you may be experiencing the frigid cold in that moment
outside your window. However; that thought had an effect on
your consciousness that you created despite the current time and
moment that you thought you should have been experiencing.
The mind is powerful beyond what science has even learned at
this current time. Do you ever wonder why that annoying
person at work is always so chipper no matter how bad the work
gets? It’s simple because that is how they perceive that moment
in time and space. You control how you see the universe and
you control the world around you it’s that simple. Everything is
controlled in the mind and perceived by your programmed
ethics and beliefs.
Time in the mind is flexible, think about the time that you spend
waiting for a doctor’s appointment vs. the time you spend doing
something fun and you’ll recall that the time spent at the
doctor’s office was slower vs. the time spent having fun. The
perception of time is relevant to the how the mind perceives the
time you’ve created. The perception controls the experience and
hence the mind is predicting the future by your set controls.

This process is the same reason why when we travel to
somewhere new it always seems so much longer to get to the
destination than it does to return. The brain perceives our
relevant time and space and thus creates our reality. The brain
has been extensively studied and is known to be able to rewrite
the past. For example, when you look at a clock and see the
second hand move the perception is that it seems to take
forever; at first, and then the second hand moves much more
quickly. This is created by our ability to predict the future
through our brain’s perception. So, when the brain does catch
up to the now it can go back and rewrite what it did see so that
the gaps created in our memory are resolved by the information
it received in the future. I know that this is a hard concept to
wrap your head around and that is exactly the point. The 6th
principle of Biocentrism is that time doesn’t have a real
existence outside of animal intuition. This speaks to the fact
that we react to our environment based off of what our brain
perceives is going to happen. This allows us to react in the
moment instead of well after the event has occurred. This is a
created reality that must be rewritten after the fact and is
created in our minds regardless of how it is actually happening
in the current moment.
The perception of time in the 6th principle is created in all
living things. The living is defined as “Any organism or a living
form that possesses or shows the characteristics of life or
being alive” (Biology-Online.org, 2017). This creates a problem
since that definition can vary widely from person to person but
that main idea is that we create our time and thus our reality.
This brings us to our 7th principle: Space, like time, isn’t an
object or thing that has an independent reality. What Lanza is
trying to explain is that we carry our time and space realities in
our mind and this reality is created by us internally.
“Consciousness is the matrix upon which the cosmos is
apprehended. Color, sound, temperature, and the like exist only
as perceptions in our head, not as absolute essences. In the
broadest sense, we cannot be sure of an outside universe at all.”

(Lanza, 2007). In this internally created reality space would not
exist without our creation of it in our minds. “Quantum
theory tells us that an unobserved small object (for instance, an
electron or a photon—a particle of light) exists only in a blurry,
unpredictable state, with no well-defined location or motion
until the moment it is observed.” (Baeyer, 1995) When the
universe was initially conceived scientists believed that it
existed independently of us and without our input. However,
Lanza and many other scientists are proving that theory to be
incorrect on many levels. It goes back to the saying if a tree
falls in the forest and no one is around to see or hear it did it
really fall? Lanza’s theory of biocentrism answers with a
resounding “No” because without our perception of the space in
which the tree disrupted the change in the universe could not be
done.
Daria Gore
Biocentrism explains that life and biology are the interior pieces
to being, reality, and the cosmos. It describes how life builds
the universe rather than the other way around. Biocentrism
builds upon the ideas of physics. While physics is necessary to
the study of the world and chemistry essential to the education
of life, biocentrism puts biology before all other sciences to
develop a theory of everything an approach of the universe.
"Time does not have a real existence outside of animal -sense
perception. It is the process by which we perceive changes in
the universe. Space, like time, is not an object or a thing. Space
is another form of our animal understanding and does not have
an independent reality. We carry space and time around with us
like turtles with shells. Thus, there is no absolute self-existing
matrix in which physical events occur independently of life
(Biocentrism: A Consciousness-Centric View of the Universe)."
How the sixth and seventh principle applies to not making
human needs and rights more important than any other living
things while carrying space and time?
Biocentrism consists of seven principles. The sixth principle
of biocentrism states time does not have a real life external of

animal-sense understanding. It is the process by which we
notice changes in the universe. The seventh principle states
Space is not an object or a thing. There is no complete self-
existing matrix in which physical events occur independently of
life. Physics and chemistry laws can explain the biology of
living systems, a full understanding of life cannot be understood
by looking at cells and molecules through a microscope. We
have to learn that physical existence cannot be divorced from
the animal life and structures that coordinate sense perception
and experience. Our science fails to recognize those unique
properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality.
This view of the world, biocentrism, revolves around the way a
subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a
physical process. Biocentrism sees individual species as parts of
the living biosphere. It examines the results of reducing
biodiversity and points to the fundamental value all species
have to the environment. The environment is surrounding within
which we live and depend on its variety for our health. From
these examinations, the ethical points are raised. Biocentrism
has faced criticism for many reasons. Some of these criticisms
are concerns that biocentrism is an antihuman model and that it
will not wait to sacrifice human well-being for the greater good.
Biocentrism has also been disapproved for its individualism;
stress too much on the importance of individual life and
disregarding the importance of collective groups. A more
complicated form of criticism focuses on the contradictions of
biocentrism. Biocentrism puts humans on balance with the rest
of nature, and not above it. "Human ways, human culture, and
human actions are as natural as how any other species of
animals behave.” He goes on to suggest that if humans must
change their behavior to refrain from disturbing and damaging
the natural environment, then that results in setting humans
apart from other species and assigning more power to
them"(Wilson-Slack). The extinction of species is nature's way
and that if humans were to instigate their self-destruction by
taking advantage of the rest of life. Therefore, the real reason

humans should reduce their damaging behavior with other
species is not that we are equivalent but because the destruction
of other species will also result in our damage.
The way we think is based on the belief that the world has an
objective observer-independent existence. We believe in death
"because we have been taught we die. Also, of course, because
we associate ourselves with our body and we know bodies
die"(Wilson-Slack). If you add life and consciousness, you can
explain some of the biggest mysteries of science. It becomes
clear why the laws, forces, and constants of the universe appear
to be exquisitely fine-tuned for the existence of life. Until we
recognize the world in our heads, attempts to understand reality
will remain a road to nowhere.
According to biocentrism, the material and immaterial worlds
are co-relative. Life and consciousness represent one side of the
equation, matter, and energy the other. They cannot be split; if
they are, then the reality is gone. Although the current scientific
example is established on the belief that the world has an
objective viewer-independent existence, a long list of
experiments shows the opposite. People that believe in God also
believe in an afterlife. Nonbelievers think death is the end.
Biocentrism boosts the primacy of consciousness found in the
work of Kant, as well as Descartes, Berkeley, Schopenhauer,
and Bergson. Without awareness, space and time are nothing. At
death, there's a break in the progression of space and time.
"Take any point as your new frame of reference and estimate
everything relative to it. Like the particles that can pass through
two holes at the same time, you can consider yourself both alive
and dead, outside of time. According to nonbelievers, you die
and rot into the ground. The universe continues to tick along
like a clock; and in a few billion years, the sun will expand into
a red giant, devouring all the inner planets, including the Earth"
(Wilson-Slack).
In comparison to the old perpetual view, biocentrism preserves
that time is a form of animal instinct, not an object that ticks
along independent of the observer. Without awareness, the

passage of time is meaningless. The relationship between
humans and their environments is one that should be symbiotic.
Organisms are seeking an understanding of other
microorganisms existing in the given context, preservation of
one's environment through the use of resources at a rate only
necessary for the sustainment of a population as well as
replacing used funds. Continued researches towards
understanding one's place in an environment on any scale are
arguably keyed to say symbiotic relationship and are critical in
the preservation of one's biome and the understanding of it. To
demonstrate the importance of a symbiotic relationship between
humans and their environment we go over the principles.
Stephanie Perez
There is an undeniable relationship between human beings
and their environment and everything in it. It is a relationshi p
of mutual vulnerability and dependence. People create
environmental degradation and “the environment sets limits to
human activity” (Fraser, 2003). Most of the impact of human
activity revolves around air, soil and water. Arguably, the
domino effect of changes resulting from the disturbances in
these areas also affects animal and plant life. Likewise, the
influence of environmental factors on human life is far reaching
and often times unknown. Despite this, people are resourceful,
and in an attempt to find solutions to meet environmental
challenges, they sometimes do not prioritize the environment; it
is important to find solutions that prioritize humans equally
with their environment. Countries with improved environmental
management focus on “preserving ecosystem cohesion and
structure” (Fraser, 2003).
Ecosystem management (EM) is a method that emphasizes our
stewardship of natural resources while acknowledging the effect
of human activity on the environment (Fraser, 2003). “However,
a necessary component of EM is the need to acknowledge
human activity as an active component of the ecosystem”
(Fraser, 2003). Therefore, resource management requires a
balance between human needs and environmental integrity; this

includes human beings as a resource as well (Fraser, 2003).
“The human brings individual perceptions, expectations, and
experiences into the environment” (Bazley, 2016). Perception
and sensory input influence how human beings relate, think
about, feel about their environment. The environment affects
humans physically (e.g. temperature, humidity, brightness),
psychologically—for example, an overcast day might make
some people feel down, but it also influences intellect (Bazley,
2016). Studies showing the complexity of the human-
nature/environment relationship point to the necessity of
including of prioritizing the environment equal to humans for
our own well being. Infrastructure and industry need to function
as extensions of the environment while simultaneously meeting
human needs and conserving the integrity of the environment
(Bazley, 2016).
The human—environment relationship is one of mutual
dependence—the two are interlinked. Furthermore, not only do
humans influence the environment while it limits human
activity, but the environment, specifically nature, plays a role in
human health. The human–nature relationship goes beyond the
extent to which an individual believes or feels they are part of
nature. “It can also be understood as, and inclusive of, our
adaptive synergy with nature as well as our longstanding actions
and experiences that connect us to nature” (Seymour, 2016). It
is important to note that there are several aspects to health:
physical, mental, and social (Seymour, 2016). In terms of
physical health, studies have shown that exposure to nature
(visual, physical or multi sensory, etc) is effective in regulating
body rhythms to ensure physical wellbeing (Seymour, 2016).
“Hospital patients exposed to natural scenery from a window
view experienced decreased levels of pain and shorter recovery
time after surgery”(Seymour, 2016). Additional findings of the
benefits of nature on health include: improvements in
neurological and circadian rhythms relating to exposure to
natural sunlight, and the reduction of blood pressure levels
simply by hiking through the woods (Seymour, 2016). Mental

health is also impacted by exposure to nature. Depressed moods
are alleviated through exposure to sunlight. Socially, studies
show, that being in a green space promotes “ social cohesion
and group-based activities, aspects that are crucial for
maintaining social ties, developing communities, and increasing
individual’s well-being” ( Seymour, 2016). Further findings
include improved social development in children, as well as
enhanced social bonds in communities (Seymour, 2016). It
should be noted that green spaces or access to them are not
available to all equally. This is another consideration to make
when taking into account the stewardship of environmental
resources.
Often, hindsight is 20/20. There are some considerations that
will not be apparent at the time, and in these cases, where the
long term effects of human action are not certain, caution is
imperative. Consider the mining of tar in Alberta, Canada. This
is one scenario in which human industry is altering not only the
relationship between humans and their environment, but within
the environment itself. In this case, the relationship of a
naturally occurring substance that has existed for thousands of
years in the earth’s crust is being altered without any foresight
as to how it will affect those on the surface. Humans are
clueless as to the long term impact of this action, but prioritize
human wants and needs over the potential impact of their
actions on not only the environment but also of the environment
on themselves (Carver, 2009).
Finally, it is not only important to prioritize the
environment because we do not know the long term effects of
human action on the environment, or because humans are
inextricably linked with the environment, but it is important to
protect the environment out of a sense of correct stewardship
that respects life in all its forms. Taking on a biocentric
approach ensures that whatever human actions are taken, the
environment/ nature and everything in it will also be taken into
account. “Biocentrism holds that all living things are morally
considerable...everything that lives has a will to live (or an

inbuilt drive toward self-preservation and living its own life),
and the reverence that one feels toward one's own “will -to-live”
ought, morally, to be extended to all”(Attfield, 2013).
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Ball, P. (2018). Why Physics Is Not a Discipline; Physics is not
just what happens in the Department of Physics. Nautilus,
(035). Retrieved from http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/why-

physics-is-not-a-discipline
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Lanza, R. (2018). A New Theory of the Universe. The American
Scholar. Retrieved from https://theamericanscholar.org/a-new-
theory-of-the-universe/#.W_H2lC-ZOqB
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Questions of Inherent Worth, Etiology, and Teleofunctional
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right-to-clone/
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consciousness-are-the-keys-to-understanding-the-true-nature-of-
the-universe/
Niesha Turner
Attfield, R. (2015). Ethics of the global environment. Edinburgh
University Press.
Bourne, D. G., Morrow, K. M., & Webster, N. S. (2016).
Insights into the coral microbiome: underpinning the health and
resilience of reef ecosystems. Annual Review of
Microbiology, 70, 317-340.
Di Prisco, G., Annoscia, D., Margiotta, M., Ferrara, R.,
Varricchio, P., Zanni, V., ... & Pennacchio, F. (2016). A
mutualistic symbiosis between a parasitic mite and a pathogenic
virus undermines honey bee immunity and health. Proceedings
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McGlinn, D. J. (2016). Mutualism persistence and abandonment
during the evolution of the mycorrhizal symbiosis. The
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Palmer, C. (2016). Living individuals: Biocentrism in
environmental ethics. The Oxford handbook of environmental
ethics (Oxford handbooks.
Remigi, P., Zhu, J., Young, J. P. W., & Masson-Boivin, C.
(2016). Symbiosis within symbiosis: evolving nitrogen-fixing
legume symbionts. Trends in microbiology, 24(1), 63-75.
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Task 9
Final Analysis!
Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
Part 1
The data in the following table shows the results of a zombie
outbreak as time goes by. The number of zombies includes those
that have been infected, as well as compensates for those that
have been eliminated by the survivors.
Time (days)
1
2
3
4

5
6
7
8
Number of Zombies
2
4
7
11
17
35
79
150
Determine which function best models the data in the table, and
then give your best approximation for what specific function
would model this data, i.e. f(x) = what?
Based on the model you found, which is the best prediction of
the number of zombies in 4 days (12 days since the outbreak
began)?
Part 2
A hotel trying to attract new business built a banquet hall 8
years ago. The following table shows the number of events
hosted in the hotel’s banquet hall each year since it was built.
Years since built
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Number of events

50
112
150
160
200
215
225
232
Is this data best represented by an exponential regression model
or a logarithmic regression model? Write the equation for the
appropriate regression model to the best of your abilities.
Using your equation that you developed, predict the number of
events on the 14th year.
STEP 2
Linear Programming
Mr. Walton wants to take his little brother Everett and 10 of his
little friends to Chuckie Cheese. A large pizza (including tokens
for games) costs $20 and a pitcher of soda costs $5.WW`
Being a teacher, Mr. Walton is very concerned about how much
money he is going to spend, so he does not want to spend more
than $100. Also, he is only willing to buy at most 11 pitchers of
soda, but knows that he needs to have enough pizza and soda for
all of the kids.
Model this scenario graphically, and then determine the best
possible solutions.
STEP 3
Develop your own sequence of numbers that would sum to 100
in at most the first 25 terms, but at least the first 12 terms. It

can be either an arithmetic or geometric sequence.
Biocentrism
By: Roland Grannum, Lidia Rodriguez, James Vinson
Niesha Turner, Meaghan Mahaffey, Daria Gore, Stephanie Perez
Introduction
Questions
What is classified as a living thing?
Is the current relationship between humans and other living
Is biology the science to determine the theory of everything?
How can we apply the 6th and 7th principles to be sure that
while we carry space and time with us that we don’t use it but
to make human needs and rights more important than any other
living things?
What is classified as a living thing?

Is the current relationship between humans and other living
Is biology the science to determine the theory of everything?
How can we apply the 6th and 7th principles to be sure that
while we carry space and time with us that we don’t use it but
to make human needs and rights more important than any other
living things?
Biocentrism explains that life and biology are the interior pieces
to being, reality, and the cosmos.

Biocentrism consists of seven principles.
Biocentrism has also been disapproved for its individualism;
stress too much on the importance of individual life and
disregarding the importance of collective groups.
The way we think is based on the belief that the world has an
objective observer-independent existence.
According to biocentrism, the material and immaterial worlds
are co-relative.
In comparison to the old perpetual view, biocentrism preserves
that time is a form of animal instinct, not an object that ticks
along independent of the observer.
In Conclusion…
Work Cited
Garver, G., & Brown, P. G. (n.d.). Humans & Nature: The Right
Relationship. Retrieved from
https://www.humansandnature.org/humans-nature-the-right-
relationship
Sport Hunting. (2018). Retrieved from https://nhes.org/animal -
info-2/animal-welfare-information/sport-hunting/
John, T. M. (2013). Deforestation. Salem Press Encyclopedia of
Science. Retrieved from
http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.devry.edu:5050/eds/[email pro

tected]&vid=2&ReturnUrl=http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/detail
/detail?vid=1&[email protected]&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPXVyb
Cxjb29raWUsaXAsdWlkJnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU=
Gray, R. (2011, January 2). How wild animals evolved to help
humans. Sunday Telegraph. Retrieved from
http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.devry.edu:5050/eds/detail/deta
il?vid=2&[email protected]&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPXVybCxjb
29raWUsaXAsdWlkJnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU=#AN=8Q34313
6017&db=n5h
Rawson, J. (2018, September 15). Wake-up time as humans
herald end of almost every other living thing. The Australian.
Retrieved from
http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.devry.edu:5050/eds/detail/deta
il?vid=26&[email protected]&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPXVybCxj
b29raWUsaXAsdWlkJnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU=#db=n5h&AN
=9X9AUSNEWSMMGLSTRY000376147201
Ball, P. (2018). Why Physics Is Not a Discipline; Physics is not
just what happens in the Department of Physics. Nautilus,
(035). Retrieved from http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/why-
physics-is-not-a-discipline
DesJardins, J. (2018). Biocentrism | ethics. Retrieved from
https://www.britannica.com/topic/biocentrism
Lanza, R. (2018). A New Theory of the Universe. The American
Scholar. Retrieved from https://theamericanscholar.org/a-new-
theory-of-the-universe/#.W_H2lC-ZOqB
Rice, D. (2018). Biocentrism in Environmental Ethics:
Questions of Inherent Worth, Etiology, and Teleofunctional
Interests. Retrieved from
https://scholarworks.uark.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https
://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=3189&context=etd
Weintrub, P. (2018). Fighting for the Right to Clone. Retrieved
from http://discovermagazine.com/2008/sep/19-fighting-for-the-
right-to-clone/
Bartee, L. (2017). Principles of Biology: Biology 211, 212, and

213. Retrieved November 13, 2018, from
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/mhccmajorsbio/chapter/what
-makes-something-living/
Robert Lanza » Biocentrism / Robert Lanza's Theory of
Everything. (n.d.). Retrieved from
the-universe/
Attfield, R. (2015). Ethics of the global environment. Edinburgh
University Press.
Bourne, D. G., Morrow, K. M., & Webster, N. S. (2016).
Insights into the coral microbiome: underpinning the health and
resilience of reef ecosystems. Annual Review of
Microbiology, 70, 317-340.
Maherali, H., Oberle, B., Stevens, P. F., Cornwell, W. K., &
McGlinn, D. J. (2016). Mutualism persistence and abandonment
during the evolution of the mycorrhizal symbiosis. The
American Naturalist, 188(5), E113-E125.
Palmer, C. (2016). Living individuals: Biocentrism in
environmental ethics. The Oxford handbook of environmental
ethics (Oxford handbooks.
Remigi, P., Zhu, J., Young, J. P. W., & Masson-Boivin, C.
(2016). Symbiosis within symbiosis: evolving nitrogen-fixing
legume symbionts. Trends in microbiology, 24(1), 63-75.
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https://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Living_thing

Lanza, R. (2007). Robert Lanza, M.D. - BIOCENTRISM »
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http://discovermagazine.com/1995/nov/thephilosophersa582
Berman, R. L. (2018). Biocentrism/Rober Lanza's Theory of
Everything. Retrieved from Robert Lanza:
the-universe/
Biocentrism: A Consciousness-Centric View of the Universe.
(n.d.). Retrieved November 16, 2018, from The Weiler Psi Blog:
https://weilerpsiblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/biocentrism-a-
consciousness-centric-view-of-the-universe/
Lanza, B. B. (2009, May 1). The Biocentric Universe Theory.
Retrieved from Discover Magazine:
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/may/01-the-biocentric-
universe-life-creates-time-space-cosmos

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