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The relationship between physics and life is defined by the debate over whether biological processes are fully reducible to physical laws, as noted in [1], [2], and [3], and the academic pursuit of a unified theory connecting these domains as seen in [4].

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Critique of Panpsychism: Philosophical Coherence and Scientific ... thequran.love Zia H Shah MD · The Muslim Times 2 facts

claimGalen Strawson argues that the analogy between life and consciousness is flawed because life, when defined in biological terms, is fully explainable by physics and chemistry as complicated order, whereas consciousness is experiential and not captured by structure alone.

quoteLife (without consciousness) reduces [to physics]; experience doesn’t.

The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com Springer 1 fact

claimThe existence of life does not logically follow from the natural laws of physics and chemistry, as life appears to invert entropy, yet most scientists maintain that life can be explained by natural law.

Quantum Models of Consciousness from a Quantum Information ... arxiv.org arXiv 1 fact

referenceR. Swenson authored the paper 'A grand unified theory for the unification of physics, life, information and cognition (mind),' published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, volume 381, in 2023.