Search results
1 cze 2012 · A review of What is Life? With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches, by Erwin Schrödinger, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 194, $16.99/£10.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-107-60566-7. Scope: review.
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (1944) is written by Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961), an Austrian quantum physicist intrigued by genetics and philosophy. What is life in a physical sense?
5 wrz 2014 · 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...
16 cze 2021 · What Is Life? is full of timely outlooks and approaches to understanding the mysterious living world that includes and surrounds us and can instead be viewed as a call to arms to tackle the great unanswered challenges in the study of living matter that remain for 21st century science.
What the book so cleverly demonstrates is that when people carry over their common-sense concepts about mind into the Wonderland of Science Fiction computers, teleclones and brain surgery, they can and do get those common-sense concepts in a twist.
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.
Schrodinger asks what place consciousness occupies in the evolution of life, and what part the state of development of the human mind plays in moral questions. Brought together with these two classics are Schrödinger's autobiographical sketches, published and translated here for the first time.
