What is Life?

It seems like a simple question: what makes something alive? We know it when we see it – a bird in flight, a growing tree, a scurrying insect. Yet, as Don Simborg reveals here, the scientific community has been locked in a millennia-long struggle to find a definition that actually sticks. From the earliest philosophical musings to the complexities of “Vitalism” and the pioneering insights of Erwin Schrödinger, this book explores why every attempt to define life seems to hit a wall.

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