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Author : Erwin Schrödinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Biology
ISBN : UOM:39015002296260
Author : Erwin Schrodinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107604667
"What Is Life?" is Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology. His essay, "Mind and Matter," investigates what place consciousness occupies in the evolution of life, and what part the state of development of the human mind plays in moral questions. "Autobiographical Sketches" offers a fascinating fragmentary account of his life as a background to his scientific writings.
Author : Addy Pross
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191650895
Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrödinger posed a profound question: 'What is life, and how did it emerge from non-life?' This problem has puzzled biologists and physical scientists ever since. Living things are hugely complex and have unique properties, such as self-maintenance and apparently purposeful behaviour which we do not see in inert matter. So how does chemistry give rise to biology? What could have led the first replicating molecules up such a path? Now, developments in the emerging field of 'systems chemistry' are unlocking the problem. Addy Pross shows how the different kind of stability that operates among replicating molecules results in a tendency for chemical systems to become more complex and acquire the properties of life. Strikingly, he demonstrates that Darwinian evolution is the biological expression of a deeper, well-defined chemical concept: the whole story from replicating molecules to complex life is one continuous process governed by an underlying physical principle. The gulf between biology and the physical sciences is finally becoming bridged. This new edition includes an Epilogue describing developments in the concepts of fundamental forms of stability discussed in the book, and their profound implications. Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.
Author : Paul Nurse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Life (Biology)
ISBN : 1788451422
Author : Paul Nurse
Publisher : David Fickling Books
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781788451413
Life is all around us, abundant and diverse, it is extraordinary. But what does it actually mean to be alive? Nobel prize-winner Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In this book, he takes up the challenge of defining life in a way that every reader can understand. It is a shared journey of discovery; step by step he illuminates five great ideas that underpin biology. He traces the roots of his own curiosity and knowledge to reveal how science works, both now and in the past. Using his personal experiences, in and out of the lab, he shares with us the challenges, the lucky breaks, and the thrilling eureka moments of discovery.To survive the challenges that face the human race today - from climate change, to pandemics, loss of biodiversity and food security - it is vital that we all understand what life is.
Author : Andreas Losch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107175891
This volume explores the questions and answers surrounding the 'secret of life', combining approaches from the sciences, philosophy and theology, including the emerging discipline of astrobiology.
Author : Hans-Peter Dürr,Fritz-Albert Popp,Wolfram Schommers
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814490160
The book of Erwin Schrödinger about life evokes a variety of basic questions concerning the understanding of life in terms of modern physics rather than biochemistry. Problems of organization and regulation of biological systems cannot be understood by revealing only the chemical processes of the living state. A group of reputable physicists — among them the followers of Heisenberg and Fröhlich — and biologists came to this same conclusion through several workshops on this topic. This book contains their contributions, written from different viewpoints of theoretical physics and modern biology. These articles are valuable not only for understanding life, but also for creating new and non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic tools in medicine; they also contribute importantly to a deeper understanding of evolutionary processes, including the development of consciousness. Contents:All the Colors of a Rainbow in a Worm or: What is Life? (R Eichelbeck)Life — A Problem Inherent in the Research Context (F-T Gottwald)Truth and Knowledge (W Schommers)The Formative Powers of Developing Organisms (L V Beloussov)Communication — Basis of Life (L von Klitzing)On the Essence of Life — A Physical but Nonreductionistic Examination (H-J Fischbeck)Biophoton and the Quantum Vision of Life (R P Bajpai)Quantum Mechanics, Computability Theory and Life (J Swain)and other papers Readership: Scientists interested in the life sciences and related subjects. Keywords:
Author : Edward Regis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780195383416
This book provides an introduction to the work of the scientists who were attempting literally to create life from scratch, starting with molecular components that they hope to assemble into the world's first synthetic living cell. The book also examines how scientists have unlocked the "three secrets of life," describes the key role played by ATP ("the ultimate driving force of all life"), and outlines the many attempts to explain how life first arose on earth, a puzzle that has given birth to a wide range of theories.
Author : Michael P. Murphy,Luke A. J. O'Neill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521599393
Erwin Schrödinger's book What is Life? had a tremendous influence on the development of molecular biology, stimulating scientists such as Watson and Crick to explore the physical basis of life. Much of the appeal of Schrödinger's book lay in its approach to the central problems in biology - heredity and how organisms use energy to maintain order - from a physicist's perspective. At Trinity College, Dublin a number of outstanding scientists from a range of disciplines gathered to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of What is Life? and following Schrödinger's example fifty years previously, presented their views on the current central problems in biology. The contributors to this volume include Stephen Jay Gould, Roger Penrose, Jared Diamond, Manfred Eigen, John Maynard Smith, Christien de Duve and Lewis Wolpert. This collection is essential reading for anyone interested in biology and its future.
Author : Josef Seifert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004495067
This book makes four bold claims: 1) life is an ultimate datum, open to philosophical analysis and irreducible to physical reality; hence all materialist-reductionist explanations - most current theories - of life are false. 2) All life presupposes soul (entelechy) without which a being would at best fake life. 3) The concept of life is analogous and the most direct access to life in its irreducibility is gained through consciousness; 4) All life possesses an objective and intrinsic value that needs to be respected, human life possesses beyond this an inviolable dignity. Life and personal life are pure perfections, it being absolutely better to possess (personal) life than not to possess it. Chapter 1: the metaphysical essence and the many meanings of 'life,' as well as its 'transcendental' character. Chapter 2: the irreducibility of biological life, its amazing empirical and philosophically intelligible essential features, and the ways of knowing them. Chapter 3: the immediate evidence and indubitable givenness of mental, conscious life as well as questions of (brain-) death and immortality. Chapter 4: the inviolable objective dignity of personal life and its self-transcendence; a new theory of the fourfold source of human dignity and rights. Chapter 5 (in dialogue-form): methods and results of philosophy versus those of empirical life-sciences.
Author : Laurence A. Cole
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128096864
Biology of Life: Biochemistry, Physiology and Philosophy provides foundational coverage of the field of biochemistry for a different angle to the traditional biochemistry text by focusing on human biochemistry and incorporating related elements of evolution to help further contextualize this dynamic space. This unique approach includes sections on early human development, what constitutes human life, and what makes it special. Additional coverage on the differences between the biochemistry of prokaryotes and eukaryotes is also included. The center of life in prokaryotes is considered to be photosynthesis and sugar generation, while the center of life in eukaryotes is sugar use and oxidative phosphorylation. This unique reference will inform specialized biochemistry courses and researchers in their understanding of the role biochemistry has in human life. Contextualizes the field of biochemistry and its role in human life Includes dedicated sections on human reproduction and human brain development Provides extensive coverage on biochemical energetics, oxidative phosphorylation, photosynthesis, and carbon monoxide-acetate pathways
Author : Lynn Margulis,Dorion Sagan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520220218
Transcending the various formal concepts of life, this captivating book offers a unique overview of life's history, essences, and future. "A masterpiece of scientific writing. You will cherish "What Is Life?" because it is so rich in poetry and science in the service of profound philosophical questions".--Mitchell Thomashow, "Orion". 9 photos. 11 line illustrations.
Author : Denis Noble
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191578809
What is Life? Decades of research have resulted in the full mapping of the human genome - three billion pairs of code whose functions are only now being understood. The gene's eye view of life, advocated by evolutionary biology, sees living bodies as mere vehicles for the replication of the genetic codes. But for a physiologist, working with the living organism, the view is a very different one. Denis Noble is a world renowned physiologist, and sets out an alternative view to the question - one that becomes deeply significant in terms of the living, breathing organism. The genome is not life itself. Noble argues that far from genes building organisms, they should be seen as prisoners of the organism. The view of life presented in this little, modern, post-genome project reflection on the nature of life, is that of the systems biologist: to understand what life is, we must view it at a variety of different levels, all interacting with each other in a complex web. It is that emergent web, full of feedback between levels, from the gene to the wider environment, that is life. It is a kind of music. Including stories from Noble's own research experience, his work on the heartbeat, musical metaphors, and elements of linguistics and Chinese culture, this very personal and at times deeply lyrical book sets out the systems biology view of life.
Author : Stewart Goetz,Joshua W. Seachris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351848145
What are we asking when we ask, "What is the meaning of life?"? Can there be meaning without God? Is a happy life a meaningful life? Can an immoral life be meaningful? Does our suffering have meaning? Does death threaten meaning? What is this thing called The Meaning of Life? provides an engaging and stimulating introduction to philosophical thinking about life’s meaning. Goetz and Seachris provide the reader with accessible examples, before looking at the main theoretical approaches to meaning and key philosophers associated with them. Topics covered include: What does the question, "What is the meaning of life?", even mean? Does life have a purpose? What is valuable? Do we matter? Does life (or my life) make any sense? Is there any meaning in suffering? Does death threaten meaning? Would immortality be good or bad news for us? With boxed summaries of key concepts and noteworthy examples, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading included within each chapter, this book is the ideal introduction to life’s meaning for philosophy students coming to the subject for the first time.
Author : Erwin 1887-1961 Schrödinger
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014611806
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