Alex Maier on why consciousness science needs mathematical formalization – in particular, a structuralist approach like that in integrated information theory
Erwin Schrödinger’s What Is Life is a famous book that people point to as having predicted DNA and influenced and inspired many well-known biologists ushering in the molecular biology revolution. But Schrödinger was a physicist, not a biologist, and he spent very little time and effort toward understanding biology.
