English Explanatory Dictionary

biocentrism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An ethical viewpoint that extends inherent value to all non-human life, regardless of its sentience.
  2. A cosmological theory viewing life and biology as central to being, reality, and the cosmos such that life creates the universe rather than the other way around.

Word forms

biocentrism

Etymology

From bio- + -centrism. The cosmological view was proposed in 2007 by American scientist Robert Lanza.

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