author : Michael P. Murphy

Contents

• Michael P. Murphy, Luke A. J. O'Neill.

What is Life? The next fifty years. An introduction

• Manfred Eigen.

What will endure of 20th century biology?

• Stephen Jay Gould.

'What is life?' as a problem in history

• Jared Diamond.

The evolution of human inventiveness

• Lewis Wolpert.

Development: is the egg computable or could we generate an angel or a dinosaur?

• John Maynard Smith, Eors Szathmary.

Language and life

• Christian de Duve.

RNA without protein or protein without RNA?

• Stuart A. Kauffman.

'What is life?': was Schrodinger right?

• Roger Penrose.

Why new physics is needed to understand the mind

• Walter Thirring.

Do the laws of Nature evolve?

• J. A. Scott Kelso, Hermann Haken.

New laws to be expected in the organism: synergetics of brain and behaviour

• Eric D. Schneider, James J. Kay.

Order from disorder: the thermodynamics of complexity in biology

• Ruth Braunizer.

Reminiscences