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TY - JOUR
T1 - What is life?
T2 - Essay review of "What is Life? With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches", by Erwin Schrödinger
AU - McClintock, P V E
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - We are all patterns, dynamically evolving ones, but patterns nonetheless. There is nothing special about the individual atoms that constitute our bodies. They could all be replaced by other atoms of the same kinds, and neither we nor anyone else would notice the difference. So what is it about our particular arrangement of atoms that makes us alive and our distinctive selves? Indeed, what is life?
AB - We are all patterns, dynamically evolving ones, but patterns nonetheless. There is nothing special about the individual atoms that constitute our bodies. They could all be replaced by other atoms of the same kinds, and neither we nor anyone else would notice the difference. So what is it about our particular arrangement of atoms that makes us alive and our distinctive selves? Indeed, what is life?
U2 - 10.1080/00107514.2012.713993
DO - 10.1080/00107514.2012.713993
M3 - Book/Film/Article review
VL - 53
SP - 433
EP - 435
JO - Contemporary Physics
JF - Contemporary Physics
SN - 0010-7514
IS - 5
ER -