"NASA, which is heavily invested in looking for life outside the Earth, adopted a working definition of a living organism: a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution. ... What kind of physical process, he [Schrodinger] wondered, could manage to consistently straddle the line between stasis and change? ... Living organisms can maintain their structural integrity, not despite the second law but because of it."

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