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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
lively and fascinating, with some patches of incoherence,
By Max Headroom (Princeton, NJ) - See all my reviews
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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What Is Life? Scientific Approaches and Philosophical Positions: Scientific Approaches and Philosophical Positions (Series on the Foundat... by Hans-Peter Durr (Hardcover - Jan. 2002)
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