ISSUES IN LIFE SCIENCES: ISSUES IN LIFE SCIENCES

by Pier Luigi Luisi

This collection of essays highlights, in a new, critical fashion, some of the classic questions in life science. These include “what is life?”; “what is death?”; “what is consciousness?”; “why is life cellular?”; and “why are enzymes macromolecules?”. It also explores whether evolution is pre-determined, whether science and spirituality can harmonize with each other, whether artificial intelligence is at odds with the human spirit, and whether, and to what extent, we are genetically determined. In this text, some of the main concepts used to tackle life’s are necessarily reassessed, such as the systems view of life, the notion of contingency, and the concept of autopoiesis.

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Published September 28, 2020