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What Is Life? Revisited
104 pages, Paperback
Published November 13, 2025
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October 22, 2025
'Overall, there is something decidedly odd about the habit of molecular biologists to downplay stochasticity, if not to disregard it altogether, in their representations and explanations.
We can no longer skip merrily (as some did a short while ago) from quantum mechanics to free will. The organism now has a say in the matter.
I actually agree with Kay when she writes that “Schrödinger’s four-dimensional Raphaelesque pattern [contained in the code-script] was digitalized and collapsed into a one-dimensional Boolean
message inscribed on a magnetic tape” (Kay 2000: 66). Where I disagree with her is that I take this reformulation of Schrödinger’s ideas in the language of information and cybernetics to be evidence of their continued influence, not of their initial neglect and subsequent ‘reinvention’.'
We can no longer skip merrily (as some did a short while ago) from quantum mechanics to free will. The organism now has a say in the matter.
I actually agree with Kay when she writes that “Schrödinger’s four-dimensional Raphaelesque pattern [contained in the code-script] was digitalized and collapsed into a one-dimensional Boolean
message inscribed on a magnetic tape” (Kay 2000: 66). Where I disagree with her is that I take this reformulation of Schrödinger’s ideas in the language of information and cybernetics to be evidence of their continued influence, not of their initial neglect and subsequent ‘reinvention’.'
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