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作者:
Robert Lanza
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Bob Berman
出版社: BenBella Books 副标题: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe 出版年: 2009-4-14 页数: 224 定价: USD 24.95 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9781933771694
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Every now and then, a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ultimately changed the way people perceived themselves and their relationships with the world. For most humans of the 15th century, the notion of Earth as ball of rock was nonsense. The whole of Western natural philosophy is ...
Every now and then, a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ultimately changed the way people perceived themselves and their relationships with the world. For most humans of the 15th century, the notion of Earth as ball of rock was nonsense. The whole of Western natural philosophy is undergoing a sea change again, forced upon us by the experimental findings of quantum theory. At the same time, these findings have increased our doubt and uncertainty about traditional physical explanations of the universe's genesis and structure. Biocentrism completes this shift in worldview, turning the planet upside down again with the revolutionary view that life creates the universe instead of the other way around. In this new paradigm, life is not just an accidental byproduct of the laws of physics. Biocentrism takes the reader on a seemingly improbable but ultimately inescapable journey through a foreign universe--our own--from the viewpoints of an acclaimed biologist and a leading astronomer. Switching perspective from physics to biology unlocks the cages in which Western science has unwittingly managed to confine itself. Biocentrism shatters the reader's ideas of life, time and space, and even death. At the same time, it releases us from the dull worldview that life is merely the activity of an admixture of carbon and a few other elements; it suggests the exhilarating possibility that life is fundamentally immortal. Biocentrism awakens in readers a new sense of possibility and is full of so many shocking new perspectives that the reader will never see reality the same way again.
探索科學疆界超過四十年,被視為全球頂尖科學家。目前除了在先進細胞科技公司(Advanced Cell Technology)擔任首席科學主任,也是維克弗斯特大學醫學院(Wake Forest University School of Medicine)的兼任教授。他發表過數百篇論文與發明,出版過二十本科學著作,其中一本是《組織工程原理》(Principles of Tissue Engineering),被視為該領域的重要參考書。另著有《一個世界:二十一世紀的人類健康與生存》(One World: The Health & Survival of the Human Species in the 21st Century),美國前總統吉米.卡特為該書寫了序言;此外還有《幹細胞手冊》(Handbook of Stem Cells)與《幹細胞生物學要點》(Essentials of Stem Cell Biology),兩本書都是幹細胞研究的重要參考書。
蘭薩博士在賓州大學取得學士與醫學博士學位,在學期間曾獲大學獎學金(University Scholar)與富蘭克林獎學金(Benjamin Franklin Scholar)。他也曾獲得傅爾布萊特獎學金(Fulbright Scholar),並參與全球第一個複製人類胚胎的研究團隊;他也是複製瀕危生物的第一人,證明了核轉移(nuclear transfer)可以逆轉老化;此外,蘭薩博士率先使用一種毋須摧毀人類胚胎也能製造幹細胞的方法。蘭薩博士於二〇〇五年獲得《連線》雜誌頒發的醫學傑出成就獎(Rave Award for Medicine),二〇〇六年獲得麻州高科技委員會(Mass High Tech)頒發的生物學「全能獎」。
全球作品流傳最廣的天文學家。他發表的文章數量超過一千,作品曾登上《探索雜誌》與《天文學》,他是這兩本雜誌的每月專欄作家。此外,他是《老農年鑑》(The Old Farmer’s Almanac)的天文學編輯,並曾出版過四本著作。他除了在瑪麗蒙特學院(Marymount College)擔任兼任教授,每個星期也為東北公共電台(Northeast Public Radio)撰寫和製作一個節目,於電台的《每週特輯》(Weekend Edition)時段播出。
书很好,很值得
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必看书目之一,很多年前就有所耳闻,现在终于入手了