What Is Life? (1944) [pdf]
context: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;What_Is_Life?" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;What_Is_Life?</a><p>more:<p>&quot;A New Physics Theory of Life&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quantamagazine.org&#x2F;a-new-thermodynamics-theory-of-the-origin-of-life-20140122" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quantamagazine.org&#x2F;a-new-thermodynamics-theory-o...</a><p>HN: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13103215" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13103215</a><p>&quot;An MIT physicist has proposed the provocative idea that life exists because the law of increasing entropy drives matter to acquire lifelike physical properties.&quot;<p><i>&quot;Life does not violate the second law of thermodynamics, but until recently, physicists were unable to use thermodynamics to explain why it should arise in the first place. In Schrödinger’s day, they could solve the equations of thermodynamics only for closed systems in equilibrium. In the 1960s, the Belgian physicist Ilya Prigogine made progress on predicting the behavior of open systems weakly driven by external energy sources (for which he won the 1977 Nobel Prize in chemistry). But the behavior of systems that are far from equilibrium, which are connected to the outside environment and strongly driven by external sources of energy, could not be predicted.&quot;</i><p>or: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nautil.us&#x2F;issue&#x2F;34&#x2F;adaptation&#x2F;how-do-you-say-life-in-physics" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nautil.us&#x2F;issue&#x2F;34&#x2F;adaptation&#x2F;how-do-you-say-life-in-...</a>