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Possible limits of conceptual demarcation

From the German physicist Erwin Schrödinger's text, What is life (1943), the possible limits of conceptual division between physics and biology are analyzed. Is there a limit between physics and biology? Or can biology be reduced to physics? Different views will be analyzed among scientists and philosophers.

physics; biology; limits; reductionism; evolution


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