Abstract

In 1944 Schrodinger published a remarkable little book called “What is Life?” (Cambridge University Press). In it, the father of the wave-function version of quantum mechanics ranged widely over some of the big scientific and philosophical questions of the day and, indeed, of today. On his way to questions of the nature of consciousness and self, he introduced the notion of the genetic material being an “aperiodic solid” in which mutations could be related to some sort of quantum jump between different forms of the matter within.

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