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Schrödinger’s cat among biology’s pigeons: 75 years of What Is Life?
- catawbasam 8y agoIt is a good read, and not too long. Recommended.
- tim333 8y agoI found it historically interesting thought the bit about entropy at the end seems slightly muddled. It's kind a bit of a prequel to Watson's The Double Helix which I found a good read.
- lisper 8y agoTl;DR: This is a review of a book by Erwin Shroedinger published in 1944 entitled "What Is Life"? IMHO this book is interesting as a historical curiosity, but little else. The question is horribly dated because today we know the answer: life is the result of the Darwinian evolutionary process, i.e. the copying of information under the dual influences of random mutation and a non-random selection process. With the discovery of DNA and computers, the question "What is Life" just has a straightforward answer, so it is not nearly as philosophically intriguing as it once was.