Opening Doors to a Quantum Theory of Life, Part 2: Top-Down Causation.
In Part 1 of this series, "Opening Doors to a Quantum Theory of Life" (ODQTL) (Marman, 2023a), we saw that Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, and Werner Heisenberg were some of the first to raise hopes that discoveries in quantum mechanics might solve biology's hardest problem: explaining how life works...
| Publicado en: | Integral Review: A Transdisciplinary & Transcultural Journal for New Thought, Research, & Praxis Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 90 - 171 |
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