Table of Contents

What is it to be alive?; do organisms contravene the second law?; can the second law cope with organized complexity; energy flow and living cycles; how to catch a falling electron; photocopy and chapter; the 73 octaves of nature's music; the coherent excitation of the body electric; how coherent is the organism?; life is all the colours of the rainbow in a worm; the liquid crystalline organism; crystal consciousness; quantum entanglement and coherence; the ignorance of the external observer; time and freewill.