The book of Erwin Schrodinger 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 Frohlich - and biologists came to this same conclusion though several workshops on this topic. This book contains their contributions, written from different viewpoints of theoretical physics and modern biology.
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lively and fascinating, with some patches of incoherence,
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This review is from: What Is Life? Scientific Approaches and Philosophical Positions: Scientific Approaches and Philosophical Positions (Series on the Foundations of Natural Science and Technology) (Hardcover)
The book is a collection of papers by 16 contributing authors (the table of contents can be found elsewhere on the web). I was quite surprised to find the book readily available from the public library here (inter-library loan from TCNJ). Some of the articles (by Popp, by Muller, by Hyland - it boasts 113 references) were of interest to me, while roughly a third were not very engaging. Thus I can't give a rating of 5 stars. I must admit I was mostly interested in the Fröhlich-related content (quantum coherence) and am not a scientist by vocation. A secondary issue is with the uneven quality of the writing, or at least of the translation from German in some of the chapters. The meaning would sometimes get lost in very awkward phrasing. Don't recall seeing a listing of the author biographies. I was altogether a bit underwhelmed, and give it 4 stars barely.
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biophoton signal, polar subsystem, biophoton intensity, photon condensation, dynamic coherent excitation, biophoton emission, biophoton field, metabolic pumping, quanta processes, delayed luminescence, biophoton research, capricious fairies, metabolic energy supply, amitochondriate eukaryotes, coherent excitations, photo counts, biological coherence, theoretical world view, vitality scales, electromagnetic resonator, increasing cell density, quantum search, mean energy density, polar modes, coherent mode Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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biophoton signal, polar subsystem, biophoton intensity, photon condensation, dynamic coherent excitation, biophoton emission, biophoton field, metabolic pumping, quanta processes, delayed luminescence, biophoton research, capricious fairies, metabolic energy supply, amitochondriate eukaryotes, coherent excitations, photo counts, biological coherence, theoretical world view, vitality scales, electromagnetic resonator, increasing cell density, quantum search, mean energy density, polar modes, coherent mode Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World Scientific, New York, Del Giudice, Golden Section, Neural Network World, Fritz-Albert Popp, Plant Physiol, Alexander Gurwitsch, Cambridge University Press, Die Graue Edition, Wolfram Schommers, North Holland, Oxford University Press, Albert Einstein, Collective Phenomena, Electromagnetic Bio-Information, Elemente des Lebens, International Institute of Biophysics, Life Sci, Richard Dawkins, Scientific American, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag New!
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- Recent Advances in Biophoton Research and Its Applications by Fritz Albert Popp on 4 pages
- Bioelectrodynamics And Biocommunication by Mae-Wan Ho on page 216, page 305, and page 306
- Electromagnetic Bio-Information by Fritz-Albert Popp on page 275, page 298, and page 304
- Coherent Excitations in Biological Systems (Proceedings in life sciences) by H. Frohlich on page 143, and page 276
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn on page 37, and page 166
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