What is Life? - Scientific Approaches and Philosophical Positions. Series on the foundations of Natural Science and Technology. - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9810247400 ISBN 13: 9789810247409

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9810247400
• ISBN 13: 9789810247409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 388
• Editor: Durr Hans-Peter, Popp Fritz Albert, Schommers Wolfram