TY - BOOK AU - Murphy,Michael P. AU - O'Neill,Luke TI - What is life?: the next fifty years : speculations on the future of biology SN - 052145509X AV - QH331 .W465 1995 U1 - 574/.01 20 PY - 1995/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Schrödinger, Erwin, KW - Biology KW - Philosophy KW - Congresses KW - Life (Biology) N1 - Contains most of the contributions presented at a conference held at Trinity College, Dublin, from Sept. 20-22, 1993; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; What is Life? The next fifty years. An introduction; Michael P. Murphy and Luke A. J. O'Neill --; 2; What will endure of 20th century biology?; Manfred Eigen --; 3; 'What is life?' as a problem in history; Stephen Jay Gould --; 4; The evolution of human inventiveness; Jared Diamond --; 5; Development: is the egg computable or could we generate an angel or a dinosaur?; Lewis Wolpert --; 6; Language and life; John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary --; 7; RNA without protein or protein without RNA?; Christian De Duve --; 8; 'What is life?': was Schrodinger right?; Stuart A. Kauffman --; 9; Why new physics is needed to understand the mind; Roger Penrose --; 10; Do the laws of Nature evolve?; Walter Thirring --; 11; New laws to be expected in the organism: synergetics of brain and behaviour; J. A. Scott Kelso and Hermann Haken --; 12; Order from disorder: the thermodynamics of complexity in biology; Eric D. Schneider and James J. Kay --; 13; Reminiscences; Ruth Braunizer ER -