In 1868, Thomas Huxley told a packed Edinburgh audience that protoplasm was the 'physical basis of life': that mind, feeling, and will were nothing more than molecular motion. He was half right. This unit traces the centuries-long attempt to reduce life to chemistry, from vitalism's mysterious 'life force' to Schrödinger's negative entropy to the radical insight of autopoiesis: life is not a thing. It is a process that continuously produces itself.
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