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On the Statistical Mechanics of Life: Schrödinger Revisited
Paper summary
Reconsiders thermodynamic accounts of life, separating macroscopic order from microscopic entropy. It proposes viewing persistent organization as enabling metabolic channels through which entropy can increase.
Relevance to the project
Relevant to resource-flow hypotheses and avoiding a simple order-equals-low-entropy analogy. Test causal metabolic effects separately from structural complexity.
The paper develops an interpretive framework, not a universal empirical life test.
Source record
- Reference ID
- doi-10-3390-e21121211
- Archived version
- UCL-hosted published Entropy PDF
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/doi-10-3390-e21121211/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.