What is life? : the next fifty years speculations on the future of biology / edited by Michael P. Murphy, Luke A.J. O'Neill.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997, ©1995.

xi, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

1st pbk. ed.

Contains most of the contributions presented at a conference held at Trinity College, Dublin, from Sept. 20-22, 1993

What is life? The next fifty years. An introduction / Michael P. Murphy and Luke A.J. O'Neill -- What will endure of 20th century biology? / Manfred Eigen -- "What is life?" as a problem in history / Stephen Jay Gould -- The evolution of human inventiveness / Jared Diamond -- Development: is the egg computable or could we generate an angel or a dinosaur? / Lewis Wolpert -- Language and life / John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry -- RNA without protein or protein without RNA? / Christian de Duve -- "What is life?": was Schrödinger right? / Stuart A. Kauffman -- Why new physics is needed to understand the mind / Roger Penrose -- Do the laws of nature evolve? / Walter Thirring -- New laws to be expected in the organism: synergetics of brain and behaviour / J.A. Scott Kelso and Hermann Haken -- Order from disorder: the thermodynamics of complexity in biology / Eric D. Schneider and James J. Kay -- Reminiscences / Ruth Braunizer.

Includes bibliographical references and index