What Is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches » (Reprint)

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life?, one of the great science classics of the twentieth century appears here together with Mind and Matter.

Preface;

1. The classical physicist's approach to the subject;
2. The hereditary mechanism;
3. Mutations;
4. The quantum-mechanical evidence;
5. Delbruck's model discussed and tested;
6. Order, disorder and entropy;
7. Is life based on the laws of physics? Epilogue: on determinism and free will Mind and Matter;

1. The physical basis of consciousness;
2. The future of understanding;
3. The principle of objectivation;
4. The arithmetical paradox: the oneness of mind;
5. Science and religion;
6. The mystery of the sensual qualities; Autobiographical sketches (translated from the German by Schrodinger's granddaughter Verena).