Defining life (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 20:04 (4000 days ago) @ George Jelliss

George: Here is a complex article on the future of biology 
> which considers similar issues (note it is a PDF)
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> http://www.johnboccio.com/courses/Physics120_2008/docs/woese.pdf
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> It seems to be arguing for a paradigm shift in biology, and ecology, 
> that will square reductionism with holism and emergence 
> in some manner analogous to quantum theory in physics.
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> It may all just be a pipe dream though, I suspect.-George, thanks again for a marveous article. And Woese, the discoverer of Archaea has much philosophic thought to offer. We must not lose sight of the fact that all of the complex cellular biochemistry we are finding is necessary for the phenomenon of life to emerge. Even if like consciousness, we have trouble understadning the dual emergences by just looking at cells.