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What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger - Book Summary
“Life, Entropy, and the Physics of Order”
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Title: What is Life?
Author: Erwin Schrödinger
Category: Science & Discovery, Culture & Society, Philosophy & Big Ideas
How does life defy the second law of thermodynamics? Sam and Sophie open with that puzzle, because Schrödinger's 1944 book starts by asking why living things don't just fall apart like everything else.
They walk through his answer: life feeds on 'negative entropy' by being an open…
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