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The Demon in the Machine - How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life (Paperback)
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The Demon in the Machine - How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life (Paperback)
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'A gripping new drama in science ... if you want to understand how
the concept of life is changing, read this' Professor Andrew
Briggs, University of Oxford When Darwin set out to explain the
origin of species, he made no attempt to answer the deeper
question: what is life? For generations, scientists have struggled
to make sense of this fundamental question. Life really does look
like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling
that no human engineer can match it. And yet, huge advances in
molecular biology over the past few decades have served only to
deepen the mystery. So can life be explained by known physics and
chemistry, or do we need something fundamentally new? In this
penetrating and wide-ranging new analysis, world-renowned physicist
and science communicator Paul Davies searches for answers in a
field so new and fast-moving that it lacks a name, a domain where
computing, chemistry, quantum physics and nanotechnology intersect.
At the heart of these diverse fields, Davies explains, is the
concept of information: a quantity with the power to unify biology
with physics, transform technology and medicine, and even to
illuminate the age-old question of whether we are alone in the
universe. From life's murky origins to the microscopic engines that
run the cells of our bodies, The Demon in the Machine is a
breath-taking journey across the landscape of physics, biology,
logic and computing. Weaving together cancer and consciousness,
two-headed worms and bird navigation, Davies reveals how biological
organisms garner and process information to conjure order out of
chaos, opening a window on the secret of life itself.
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