Table of Contents: “...Interplay Between Classical and Quantum Probability -- Quantum Formalism for Decision Making -- Classical Versus Quantum Rationality -- What is Life? Open Quantum Systems Approach -- Order-stability in Complex Biosystems -- Brain Functioning -- Emotional...”

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Table of Contents: “...Viruses, microorganisms and molecular genetics -- What is life?.-Basic concepts of molecular genetics -- Viruses and early genetics -- Algorithms and self-replicating computer programs -- What is information? -- Coding of information in technology...”

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Table of Contents: “...1 Devils, ratchets and molecular motors -- 2 Energy, entropy and information -- 3 A computer called Universe -- 4 Biomolecules and bioenergetics -- 5 What is life? -- 6 Information and complexity: a metaphor of natural systems and engineering -- 7...”

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Table of Contents: “...Preface -- Chapter 1 - What is Life? -- Chapter 2 - Life's Grand Themes -- Chapter 3 - The Origin of Life on Earth -- Chapter 4 - Life as the Evolution of Information -- Chapter 5 - Life Jim, But Not as We Know It -- Chapter 6 - Extinction -- Chapter 7...”

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Table of Contents: “... of the Milky Way - Ants -- Erwin Schrödinger: Wave equation - What is life? -- Enrico Fermi: Nuclear reaction - Fermi's paradox -- Rosalind Franklin: DNA - Carbon -- George Gamow: Big Bang - Genetic code....”

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Table of Contents: “... -- Contact astronomy: comets and their dust -- Building from bricks: what is life? -- Anyone out there?-Coda: What remains to be discovered?....”

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Table of Contents: “...Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1: In the Beginning -- 1.2: What is "Life?" -- 1.3: The Miller Urey Experiment -- 1.4: General Background and Definitions -- Chapter 2: What is the Origin of the Lightest Elements -- 2.1...”

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Table of Contents: “... -- Multicellular Systems -- What Is Life?- Why Is the Cell So Complex?- Ribonoscopy and Personalized Medicine -- Ribonoscopy and 'Theragnostics' -- Application of the Knowledge Uncertainty Principle to Biomedical Sciences -- Conclusions....”

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Table of Contents: “...INTRODUCTORY REPORTS -- Transport and Exceptional Public Events by W. Heinze, Germany -- 1. What gives life to an event -- 2. What do we mean by "event" nowadays? -- 3. Structural typology of events from the transport planning standpoint -- 4...”

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Table of Contents: “... and the Need for a Paradigm Shift -- 27 Toward a Paradigm Shift in Biology -- 28 What Is Life? -- 29 The Quantum Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium -- 30 Evolution and Morphogenesis -- 31 Creativity in Biological Systems -- 32 Consciousness and Evolution -- 33...”

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Table of Contents: “... -- 4.4.3 How were the large molecules, the polymers, produced? -- 4.5 What Is Life? The Need for a General Definition -- 4.5.1 Could life have originated spontaneously? -- 4.5.2 The physical aspect of life -- 4.5.3 What kind of elementary forces can play...”

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