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Series of lectures by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Edwin Schrodinger, he explains biological phenomena in quantum mechanics, the contents of his forecasts on the introduction of DNA, from this lecture series Revolution Born Molecular born. Refer to the contents of the book "Mind and Matter" below to learn more about the issue. | 90 ERWIN SCHRODINGER probably nearer to your heart certainly more intensely alive and better known to you. Yet there has been no intermediate break no death. And even if a skilled hypnotist succeeded in blotting out entirely all your earlier reminiscences you would not find that he had killed JWU. In no case is there a loss of personal existence to deplore. Nor will there ever be. NOTE TO THE EPILOGUE The point of view taken here levels with what Aldous Huxley has recently - and very appropriately - called The Perennial Philosophy. His beautiful book London Chatto and Windus J946 is singularly fit to explain not only the state ofaiTairs but also why it is so difficult to grasp and so liable to meet with opposition. MIND AND MA TTER The Tarner Lectures delivered al Trinity College Cambridge in October 1956 Schrodinger Erwin. What is Life Cambridge Press 1967 . . To my famous and belovedfriend HANS HOFF in deep devotion CHAPTER I The Physical Basis of Consciousness THE PROBLEM The world is a construct or our sensations perceptions memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence. Its becoming manifest is conditional on very special goings-on in very special parts of this very world namely on certain events that happen in a brain. That is an inordinately peculiar kind of implication which prompts the question What particular properties distinguish these brain processes and enable them to produce the manifestation Can we guess which material processes have this power which not Or simpler What kind of material process is directly associated with consciousness A rationalist may be inclined to deal curtly with this question roughly as follows. From our own experience and as regards the higher animals from analogy consciousness is linked up with certain kinds of events in organized living matter namely with certain nervous functions. How far back or down in the animal .