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Philosophy of Sciences

2018 year, number 3

THE CONCEPT OF "LIFE" AS A FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICAL CATEGORY

Evgeniy Alekseevich Bezlepkin
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 8, Nikolaeva str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: информация, знание, структура, энтропия, жизнь, Лоренц, Шредингер, Дойч, information, knowledge, structure, entropy, life, Lorentz, Schrodinger, Deutsch

Abstract

The article shows that the concept of «life» is fundamental not only for biology, but also for physics. We consider scientists’ attempts to define this concept through more general scientific categories than categories of biology. Such categories include information and entropy which help to treat life as an objectively existing structure. The article classifies fundamental physical features inherent in the concept of «life».