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The `Big' Questions in Science |
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The Physicochemical Underpinnings of Life |
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3 | (3) |
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6 | (7) |
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Do Organisms Contravene The Second Law? |
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13 | (11) |
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13 | (1) |
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The Laws of Thermodynamics |
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14 | (4) |
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18 | (2) |
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Is Maxwell's Demon in the Living System? |
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20 | (4) |
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Can The Second Law Cope With Organised Complexity? |
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24 | (14) |
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The Space-Time Structure of Living Processes |
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24 | (5) |
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29 | (6) |
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Quantum Molecular Machines in Living Systems |
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35 | (3) |
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Energy Flow And Living Cycles |
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38 | (24) |
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38 | (1) |
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Energy Flow and Material Cycles |
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39 | (2) |
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Dynamic Molecular Order from Energy Flow |
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41 | (4) |
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A Theorem of Chemical Cycles |
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45 | (4) |
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Coupled Cycles and the Steady State |
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49 | (4) |
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The Many-Fold Coupled Cycles of Life |
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53 | (3) |
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Energy Storage in the Biosphere |
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56 | (6) |
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How To Catch A Falling Electron |
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62 | (17) |
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Life and Negative Entropy |
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62 | (2) |
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64 | (4) |
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Why Don't Organisms Live by Eating Diamonds? |
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68 | (6) |
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What Kind of `Engine' is the Organism? |
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74 | (2) |
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`Stored Energy' versus `Free Energy' |
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76 | (3) |
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Towards a Thermodynamics of Organised Complexity |
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79 | (18) |
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The Continuing Enigma of Organisms |
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79 | (1) |
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The Organism as an Energy Storage Domain |
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80 | (4) |
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Energy Storage and Mobilisation is Symmetrical |
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84 | (3) |
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Thermodynamics of the Steady State versus Thermodynamics of Organised Complexity |
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87 | (1) |
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Superposition of Cyclic Non-Dissipative Processes Coupled to Dissipative Processes |
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88 | (2) |
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The Principle of Internal Entropy Compensation and the Zero-Entropy Ideal of the Organism |
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90 | (3) |
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Dynamic Closure and the Autonomy of Organisms |
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93 | (1) |
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Exquisite Sensitivity and Freedom |
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93 | (4) |
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Sustainable Systems as Organisms |
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97 | (12) |
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Zero-Entropy Model of the Organism and Sustainable Systems |
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97 | (3) |
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Zero-Entropy Model versus the Dominant Model of Infinite Growth |
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100 | (5) |
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Space-time Differentiation, Biodiversity, Productivity, Resilience and Carrying Capacity |
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105 | (1) |
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Deconstructing Money and the Bubble Economy |
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106 | (3) |
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The Seventy-Three Octaves of Nature's Music |
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109 | (15) |
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Reduction versus Integration |
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109 | (1) |
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Electricity and Magnetism |
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110 | (2) |
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The Electromagnetic Theory of Light and Matter |
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112 | (5) |
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Molecular and Intermolecular Forces |
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117 | (7) |
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Coherent Excitations of the Body Electric |
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124 | (8) |
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Collective versus Statistical Behaviour |
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124 | (2) |
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Non-Equilibrium Transitions to Dynamic Order |
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126 | (2) |
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Coherent Excitations of the Body Electric |
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128 | (4) |
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132 | (16) |
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`The Cataclysmic Violence of Homogenisation' |
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132 | (3) |
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Molecular Resonance Recognition |
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135 | (4) |
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Implications for Cell Biology |
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139 | (1) |
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Self-Assembly and Living Organisation |
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140 | (1) |
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The Meticulously Organised Cell |
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141 | (7) |
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`Life Is a Little Electric Current' |
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148 | (10) |
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Electrodynamical Through and Through |
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148 | (4) |
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Electron Energies Band Together |
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152 | (2) |
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The Body Electric Flows and Flows |
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154 | (4) |
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How Coherent Is the Organism? The Heartbeat of Health |
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158 | (21) |
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158 | (1) |
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Biological Rhythms and Coherence |
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159 | (2) |
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Complex Music of the Healthy Heart |
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161 | (3) |
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164 | (2) |
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Distinguishing Healthy from Unhealthy Heart Rhythms with Fractal Analysis |
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166 | (3) |
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Multifractal Heart Rhythm |
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169 | (1) |
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The Heart is Not a Solo Player in the Quantum Jazz of Life |
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169 | (2) |
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Happiness is a Heartbeat Away |
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171 | (1) |
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The Coherent Heart Rhythm of Positive Emotion |
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172 | (2) |
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The Emotional and Physiological Modes of the Heart |
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174 | (2) |
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Feeling Good is Good for You |
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176 | (1) |
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The Heart is Far More Than a Mechanical Pump |
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176 | (3) |
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How Coherent is the Organism? Sensitivity to Weak Electromagnetic Fields |
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179 | (13) |
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Organisms Sensitive to Very Weak Electromagnetic Fields |
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179 | (2) |
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Evidence of Non-Thermal Effects of Microwave Radiation from Mobile Phones |
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181 | (2) |
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How Magnetic Field Can Affect Organisms |
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183 | (9) |
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Life is All the Colours of the Rainbow in a Worm |
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192 | (20) |
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192 | (1) |
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The Light That Through the Green Fuse |
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192 | (4) |
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Long-Range Communication Between Cells and Organisms |
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196 | (5) |
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Where do Biophotons Come From? |
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201 | (5) |
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Life is All the Colours of the Rainbow in a Worm |
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206 | (6) |
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The Liquid Crystalline Organism |
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212 | (16) |
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The Mystery of Artemia -- Life Without Energy Flow |
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212 | (1) |
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Living versus Non-Living Matter |
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213 | (2) |
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Liquid Crystals and Organisms |
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215 | (4) |
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Rainbow Colours and Liquid Crystals |
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219 | (1) |
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The Dynamic Liquid Crystalline Whole |
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220 | (2) |
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Liquid Crystals and Pattern Determination |
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222 | (6) |
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228 | (18) |
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The Liquid Crystalline Continuum and Body Consciousness |
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228 | (2) |
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Oriented Collagens and Intercommunication |
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230 | (5) |
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Oriented Collagens and Body Consciousness |
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235 | (1) |
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236 | (1) |
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Coupled Body and Brain Consciousness |
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237 | (1) |
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The Unity of Conscious Experience |
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238 | (1) |
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Quantum Coherence and Conscious Experience |
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239 | (7) |
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246 | (23) |
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Weird and Wonderful Water |
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246 | (2) |
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Two-States Model of Water |
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248 | (1) |
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249 | (1) |
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Model Fits Well with Data |
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250 | (2) |
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252 | (1) |
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First Sightings of Structured Water |
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253 | (1) |
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254 | (2) |
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Positive Electricity Zaps Up and Down Water Chains |
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256 | (4) |
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Liquid Crystalline Acupuncture Meridians Revisited |
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260 | (1) |
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Collagen Organising Proton Cables |
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261 | (2) |
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263 | (3) |
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Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation Mediated by Liquid Crystalline Water? |
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266 | (3) |
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Quantum Entanglement and Coherence |
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269 | (33) |
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Nature is Quantum, Really |
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269 | (3) |
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Wave-Particle Duality: Which Slit Did the Buckyball Go Through? |
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272 | (3) |
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Quantum Superposition and the Uncertainty Principle |
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275 | (2) |
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The EPR Paradox and Quantum Entanglement |
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277 | (3) |
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280 | (2) |
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Quantum Coherence and Living Organisation |
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282 | (5) |
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The Universe is Quantum and Coherent |
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287 | (4) |
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Quantum Coherence Survives Weak Measurements |
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291 | (7) |
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Universal Quantum Entanglement |
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298 | (4) |
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Ignorance of the External Observer |
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302 | (15) |
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The Meaning of Life and All That |
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302 | (1) |
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302 | (4) |
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306 | (2) |
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Information, Entropy, Order and Knowledge |
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308 | (5) |
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Ignorance of the External Observer |
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313 | (4) |
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317 | (20) |
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There is No Glass Bead Game |
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317 | (1) |
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Bergson's `Pure Duration' |
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317 | (4) |
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Whitehead's `Organism' and Bohm's `Implicate Order' |
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321 | (3) |
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Space-time Structure and Quantum Theory |
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324 | (3) |
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Organisms as Coherent Space-Time Structures |
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327 | (1) |
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Organic Space-Time and Fractal Space-Time |
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328 | (2) |
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330 | (7) |
| References |
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337 | (30) |
| Subject Index |
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367 | (8) |
| Author Index |
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