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There is no universe without perception. Consciousness and the cosmos are correlative. They are one and the same.

Reality is a swirl of information in the mind. This means that absolutely everything, from the trees “out there” to our sense of time and perception of distance, is all being continually constructed and perceived by lightning-quick life-based information systems.

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If all is an eternal existence of life and nature—the true “self”—what can die?

Birth and death are apprehended as illusions, and this perception is accompanied by conviction, a sense of certainty. It is cognized as a recognition of reality rather than as an acquisition of a new idea.

—Robert Lanza
Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness and the Illusion of Death

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