What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell
Book
Formal Antecedent
Foundations and Logic
Citation
Schrödinger, Erwin. (1944). What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell. Cambridge University Press.
Why this reference is included
Schrödinger’s What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell (1944), published by Cambridge University Press, sits in the program’s reference corpus as a standing technical source. Cited across Book VI (Categorical Life), Part 0, Chapter What Is Life? Why Every Classical Answer Fails; Book VI (Categorical Life), Part 2, Chapter Thermodynamic Necessity and the Origin of Life — the central framing is “Erwin Schrödinger’s 1944 lecture series What is Life? offered two prescient insights that anticipate the τ-framework’s resolution”.
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Book VI — Categorical Life Part 0Chapter What Is Life? Why Every Classical Answer Fails
Erwin Schrödinger's 1944 lecture series What is Life? offered two prescient insights that anticipate the τ-framework's resolution
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Book VI — Categorical Life Part 0Chapter What Is Life? Why Every Classical Answer Fails
Schr\"odinger asked it in 1944 and answered with negentropy: a living system maintains order against the entropic tide
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Book VI — Categorical Life Part 0Chapter What Is Life? Why Every Classical Answer Fails
Why Every Classical Answer Fails Every classical attempt to define life—Aristotle's soul , Schr\"odinger's negentropy , NASA's working definition—captures a necessary condition but none is sufficient
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Book VI — Categorical Life Part 2Chapter Thermodynamic Necessity and the Origin of Life
In 1944 Erwin Schr\"odinger posed the question that frames this chapter: ``How can the events in space and time which take place within the spatial boundary of a living organism be accounted for by physics and chemistry?'' — Erwin Schr\"odinger, What Is Life? (1944) The classical answer—life exports entropy to maintain internal order—explains how a living system persists but not why it arises in the first place