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In 1943, Schrödinger attempted to answer the question “What Is Life?” in his historic book with the same title which contained about 90 pages. Six decades later, in this book, I needed more than 700 pages to try to answer the same question. The eightfold increase in the number of pages in this book relative to that of Schrödinger probably does not do justice to the enormous increase in our experimental knowledge about living systems that has occurred since 1943 (e.g., see Table 11.1). In his book, Schrödinger proposed three main ideas:
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Ji, S. (2012). Towards a Category Theory of Everything (cTOE). In: Molecular Theory of the Living Cell. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2152-8_21
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