Category: biology
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Hinshelwood, bacteria and biologists
Why biologists have ignored experiments of Hinshelwood? My thoughts and a list of papers that I have collected in search for an answer.
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Biology: Miscellaneous
On the difference between man and all other animals. Biologists about entropy. Addiction: Rat Park. The Uses of a Screwdriver Cannot be Listed Algorithmically. Biologism and Christianity.
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Depressive views of Jacques Monod
Quotes. Prigogine and Stengers, The new alliance. Christian de Duve, Vital Dust. Rupert Sheldrake, The Science Delusion.
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Entropy and Miscibility Gap: Tutorial for Biologists
Simple regular solution as an example. In an adiabatically isolated system, the increase of the entropy corresponds to the formation of two phases from a homogeneous mixture.
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Erwin Schrödinger and Negative Entropy
A critique of the metaphor of negative entropy. Entropy as disorder in the 19th century. Schrödinger: Order, disorder and entropy. Discussion: Order and disorder. Understanding chemical reactions.
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Resuscitation of Hamsters after Supercooling
Quotes from Lovelock – Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist.
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Quantum Microbiology
My thoughts and doubts about paper J. T. Trevors and L. Masson, Quantum Microbiology.
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Perception, Feedback, and Qualia
Could bacteria perceive? Comparison with a system with feedback and a robot. Does a bacterium already has qualia?