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; Towards a Thermodynamics of Organised Complexity; Sustainable Systems as Organisms; The Seventy-Three Octaves of Nature's Music; Coherent Excitations of the Body Electric; The Solid-State Cell; 'Life is a Little Electric Current'; How Coherent Is the Organism? The Heartbeat of Health; How Coherent Is the Organism? Sensitivity to Weak Electromagnetic Fields; Life is All the Colors of the Rainbow in a Worm; The Liquid Crystalline Organism; Crystal Consciousness; Liquid Crystalline Water; Quantum Entanglement and Coherence; Ignorance of the External Observer; Time and Freewill.