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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- WHAT IS LIFE?
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 THE CLASSICAL PHYSICIST'S APPROACH TO THE SUBJECT
- 2 THE HEREDITARY MECHANISM
- 3 MUTATIONS
- 4 THE QUANTUM-MECHANICAL EVIDENCE
- 5 DELBRÜCK'S MODEL DISCUSSED AND TESTED
- 6 ORDER, DISORDER AND ENTROPY
- 7 IS LIFE BASED ON THE LAWS OF PHYSICS?
- EPILOGUE. ON DETERMINISM AND FREE WILL
- MIND AND MATTER
- 1 THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- 2 THE FUTURE OF UNDERSTANDING
- 3 THE PRINCIPLE OF OBJEGTIVATION
- 4 THE ARITHMETICAL PARADOX: THE ONENESS OF MIND
- 5 SCIENCE AND RELIGION
- 6 THE MYSTERY OF THE SENSUAL QUALITIES
- AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- WHAT IS LIFE?
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 THE CLASSICAL PHYSICIST'S APPROACH TO THE SUBJECT
- 2 THE HEREDITARY MECHANISM
- 3 MUTATIONS
- 4 THE QUANTUM-MECHANICAL EVIDENCE
- 5 DELBRÜCK'S MODEL DISCUSSED AND TESTED
- 6 ORDER, DISORDER AND ENTROPY
- 7 IS LIFE BASED ON THE LAWS OF PHYSICS?
- EPILOGUE. ON DETERMINISM AND FREE WILL
- MIND AND MATTER
- 1 THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- 2 THE FUTURE OF UNDERSTANDING
- 3 THE PRINCIPLE OF OBJEGTIVATION
- 4 THE ARITHMETICAL PARADOX: THE ONENESS OF MIND
- 5 SCIENCE AND RELIGION
- 6 THE MYSTERY OF THE SENSUAL QUALITIES
- AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
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- What is Life?With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992