The 'Life Machine': A Quantum Metaphor for Living Matter

Mario Rasetti
2016 International Journal of Theoretical Physics  
Aim of this paper is to provide a scheme for the construction of a conceptual, virtual machine (the term has here a significance analogous to that of the Turing machine, i.e., a formal device which manipulates and evolves 'states'), able to perform all that living matter -as distinguished from inert matter -can do and inanimate matter cannot, in a setting consistent exclusively with the quantum laws. In other words, the objective is to create a theoretical construct, in the form of a conceptual
more » ... framework representing and providing the operational tools of a "Life Machine".
doi:10.1007/s10773-016-3177-6 fatcat:3oxjjzpafra3xnb333aot6du74