Human Life According to the Logic of Physics and Biology Review: What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger

Volume 4|Issue 15| Winter 2016 |Book Reviews

Abstract

Schrödinger was well aware of the difficulty of the problem, but that was of course less than the true complexity of living beings. He sought to solve this by evoking some simple principles: first, his intelligent use of our author, as represented in the living being's being a kind of escape forward and a constant turbulent motion towards the future, in that everything exists to avoid reaching thermodynamic equilibrium. Nevertheless, he does not give a tangible example, and does not reap the riches of the dialogue between the microscopic and the macroscopic—he has to wait for the fields of molecular biology for that to become possible—that occurs within every cell or system, and allows this constant "maintenance" of the constructive step that fails in its task of distancing the term equilibrium for longer.

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Lecturer in the Philosophy Department, University of Algiers II. His major translations include Olivier Roy’s “The New Scientific Mind”. He contributed to a number of collected volumes, including an article on “Karl Popper and the Critique of the Western System: A reading of The Open Society and its Enemies.”

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