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What is Life? The Observer Prescriptive
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: Received: 7 December 2022 / Approved: 8 December 2022 / Online: 8 December 2022 (11:13:37 CET)
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Roth, Y. What Is Life? The Observer Prescriptive. Results in Physics 2023, 106449, doi:10.1016/j.rinp.2023.106449. Roth, Y. What Is Life? The Observer Prescriptive. Results in Physics 2023, 106449, doi:10.1016/j.rinp.2023.106449.
Abstract
Quantum mechanics introduces the concept of an observer who selects a measuring device and reads the outputs. This measurement process is irreversible. Lately, scholars on quantum collapse phenomena have presented a quantum-like formalism describing the measurement results as an interpretation of the measured object. Note that an observer must read the interpretation results after the interpretation process. Therefore, we propose that the definition of the concept of life should be expanded based on the following concept: A living system decreases entropy, measured results are interpreted, and an internal observer reads the commentary.
Keywords
Interpretation; State construction; Entropy reduction, Observer
Subject
Physical Sciences, Thermodynamics
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