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How Life Works

Book • 2023

In 'How Life Works', Philip Ball presents a new vision of biology, revealing life as a complex system of multiple levels—genes, proteins, cells, tissues, and body modules—each with its own rules and principles.

The book explores how these levels interact and work together, leading to new possibilities in redesigning living systems and potentially regenerating limbs or creating new life forms.

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Mentioned in 5 episodes

Mentioned by

Tim Scarfe

in relation to self-organization, multi-scale information sharing, and emergentism in biology.

What’s the Magic Word? A Control Theory of LLM Prompting.

Mentioned by

Tim Scarfe

as the author of the book, and discussed throughout the podcast.

Philip Ball - How Life Works

Mentioned by Eric Topol, referencing the author's perspective on the complexity of life.

Steve Quake and Charlotte Bunne: The Holy Grail of Biology

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Martin Picard

as presenting a good argument that life does not work by genetic determinism.

Do Mitochondria Talk to Each Other? A New Look at the Cell’s Powerhouse

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Phil Ball

as the book he wrote about how life works.

Island of Knowledge: What is Life?

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