Status Updates From The Touchstone of Life: Mol...

An excellent closing chapter which I would encourage others to read first and then reread in its logical order. He does a wonderful job of analogizing biology to physics in its development and suggests that future unification of biological principles will provide some significant gains.

This last section on the overlap of quantum computation and consciousness is quite flimsy. Interestingly he mentions he's working on a forthcoming book (in 1999) covering the topic in great detail, and I've noticed that it's scheduled to be released in January 2013 - what a wait!

The opening is generally a bit slow and not as mathematically sophisticated as I might have hoped. Most of the book to this point has been a quick rehash of Steven Weinberg's book The First Three Minutes. I like where his thesis seems to be taking us though.