What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

Erwin Schrodinger; Roger Penrose

doi:10.1017/CBO9781107295629

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. It was written for the layman, but proved to be one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of DNA. What is Life? appears here together with Mind and Matter, his essay investigating a relationship which has eluded and puzzled philosophers since the earliest times. Brought together with these two classics are Schrödinger's autobiographical sketches, which offer a fascinating account of his life as a background to his scientific writings.

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Frontmatter
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WHAT IS LIFE?
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Foreword
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Preface
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1 - THE CLASSICAL PHYSICIST'S APPROACH TO THE SUBJECT
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2 - THE HEREDITARY MECHANISM
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3 - MUTATIONS
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4 - THE QUANTUM-MECHANICAL EVIDENCE
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5 - DELBRÜCK'S MODEL DISCUSSED AND TESTED
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6 - ORDER, DISORDER AND ENTROPY
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7 - IS LIFE BASED ON THE LAWS OF PHYSICS?
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EPILOGUE - ON DETERMINISM AND FREE WILL
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MIND AND MATTER
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Dedication
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1 - THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
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2 - THE FUTURE OF UNDERSTANDING
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3 - THE PRINCIPLE OF OBJECTIVATION
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4 - THE ARITHMETICAL PARADOX: THE ONENESS OF MIND
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5 - SCIENCE AND RELIGION
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6 - THE MYSTERY OF THE SENSUAL QUALITIES
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Autobiographical Sketches
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-viii

WHAT IS LIFE?
pp ix-ix

Foreword
pp x-x

Preface
pp 1-2

1 - THE CLASSICAL PHYSICIST'S APPROACH TO THE SUBJECT
pp 3-18

2 - THE HEREDITARY MECHANISM
pp 19-31

3 - MUTATIONS
pp 32-45

4 - THE QUANTUM-MECHANICAL EVIDENCE
pp 46-55

5 - DELBRÜCK'S MODEL DISCUSSED AND TESTED
pp 56-66

6 - ORDER, DISORDER AND ENTROPY
pp 67-75

7 - IS LIFE BASED ON THE LAWS OF PHYSICS?
pp 76-85

EPILOGUE - ON DETERMINISM AND FREE WILL
pp 86-90

MIND AND MATTER
pp 91-91

Dedication
pp 92-92

1 - THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
pp 93-102

2 - THE FUTURE OF UNDERSTANDING
pp 103-116

3 - THE PRINCIPLE OF OBJECTIVATION
pp 117-127

4 - THE ARITHMETICAL PARADOX: THE ONENESS OF MIND
pp 128-139

5 - SCIENCE AND RELIGION
pp 140-152

6 - THE MYSTERY OF THE SENSUAL QUALITIES
pp 153-164

Autobiographical Sketches
pp 165-184

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