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What Is Life?

Erwin Schrodinger

What Is Life? is a 1944 non-fiction science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schrödinger. The book was based on a course of public lectures delivered by Schrödinger in February 1943 at Trinity College, Dublin. Schrödinger's lecture focused on one important "how can the events in sp...

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Huberman Lab

Schrdinger, a renowned physicist, discussed the heritable material and evolution in this book, which is credited with inspiring many physicists to delve into molecular biology. He argued that Lamarckian inheritance (inheritance of acquired traits) is not tenable, meaning it doesn't happen.

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He said unfortunately Lamarck is a more inheritance of a quadrate is untenable. It doesn't happen.

— Episode: Dr. Oded Rechavi: Genes & the Inheritanc...

Episode: Dr. Oded Rechavi: Genes & the Inheritance of Memor...

Schrdinger, a renowned physicist, discussed the heritable material and evolution in this book, which is credited with inspiring many physicists to delve into molecular biology. He argued that Lamarckian inheritance (inheritance of acquired traits) is not tenable, meaning it doesn't happen.

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He said unfortunately Lamarck is a more inheritance of a quadrate is untenable. It doesn't happen.

He writes this is very very sad or unfortunate because unlike Darwinism or natural selection which is gloomy doesn't matter what you do the next generation will be born based on the instruction in the sperm and the egg it doesn't met you can't influence it of course you can give your kids money and education but you can't biologically influence it

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

It was discussed in the context of entropy and life, specifically how life attempts to maintain a certain level of order, the opposite of entropy.

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the first person who figured this out technically was probably Irwin Schrodinger who the physicist who wrote a book called What Is Life and he described life essentially as a continual attempt to cons...

— Episode: 357. ChatGPT and the Dawn of Computerize...

Episode: 357. ChatGPT and the Dawn of Computerized Hyper-In...

It was discussed in the context of entropy and life, specifically how life attempts to maintain a certain level of order, the opposite of entropy.

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the first person who figured this out technically was probably Irwin Schrodinger who the physicist who wrote a book called What Is Life and he described life essentially as a continual attempt to constrain entropy to a certain set of parameters

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