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What is Life? cover

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.

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FRONT MATTER
  • Pages:i–xvi

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812706560_fmatter

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All the Colors of a Rainbow in a Worm or: What is Life?
  • Pages:1–23

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812706560_0001

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Life — A Problem Inherent in the Research Context
  • Pages:25–37

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812706560_0002

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Truth and Knowledge
  • Pages:39–64

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812706560_0003

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The Formative Powers of Developing Organisms
  • Pages:65–94

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812706560_0004

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Electromagnetic, Symbiotic and Informational Interactions in the Kingdom of Organisms
  • Pages:95–126

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812706560_0005

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Dead Molecules and the Live Organism
  • Pages:127–144

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812706560_0006

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Inanimate and Animate Matter: Orderings of Immaterial Connectedness — The Physical Basis of Life
  • Pages:145–166

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812706560_0007

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Communication — Basis of Life
  • Pages:167–177

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812706560_0008

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Can Biological Effects Emerge from Inorganic Nano-Systems?
  • Pages:179–197

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812706560_0009

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Substantial and Non-Substantial Structure in Living Systems
  • Pages:199–216

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812706560_0010

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On the Essence of Life — A Physical but Nonreductionistic Examination
  • Pages:217–233

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812706560_0011

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Coherent Excitations in Living Biosystems and Their Implications: A Qualitative Overview
  • Pages:235–278

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812706560_0012

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Biophotonics — A Powerful Tool for Investigating and Understanding Life
  • Pages:279–306

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812706560_0013

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Biophoton and the Quantum Vision of Life
  • Pages:307–328

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812706560_0014

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Quantum Mechanics, Computability Theory and Life
  • Pages:329–342

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812706560_0015

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Bose–Einstein Condensation of Photons, Does it Play a Vital Role in the Understanding of Life?
  • Pages:343–355

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812706560_0016