What is Life?

It is the little book by the renowned physicist, Erwin Schrodinger, from 1944 that inspired a batch of molecular biologists and other scientists (including James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Roger Penrose) in their early life. That the hereditary substance is a molecule has been described with conviction in the book. Many of the concepts are dated. I liked the chapter, "Order, Disorder, and Entropy." As far as I understand, he believed that life and the idea of "I" (consciousness) are manifestations of physical processes, which has been my notion as well.