{"product_id":"lifes-chemical-secret-isbn-9780262054836","title":"Life's Chemical Secret","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow the ground-breaking discovery of a new material form in chemistry—matter in a \u003ci\u003edynamic kinetic state\u003c\/i\u003e—is helping to explain life’s unique characteristics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe materialist view of nature has guided scientific thinking since Galileo—reality can be measured, modeled, and explained. Nature is objective. But our everyday life experiences just don’t seem to fit in with that view. Purpose, desire, and consciousness are real, but not objective. How could natural processes have led to such unnatural consequences? The physical nature of living matter, a material form that has totally overwhelmed our planet, remains inexplicably unresolved. Biology, never mind psychology, simply does not make basic physical sense. Until now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLife’s Chemical Secret\u003c\/i\u003e, Addy Pross offers at last a scientific explanation for life’s greatest puzzle. Through the discovery of a new dimension in chemical possibility, Pross and his collaborators have opened a new door to understanding life’s fundamental nature. The emergence of cognition, mind, and purpose is now comprehensible through the existence of \u003ci\u003edynamic kinetic states of matter\u003c\/i\u003e. Some four billion years after life on earth first appeared, living forms can now understand how the universe was able to discover itself.Addy Pross is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva. His research focuses on the origin of life problem and the nature of the chemistry-biology interface. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTheoretical and Physical Principles of Chemical Reactivity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Life?\u003c\/i\u003e and a coeditor of \u003ci\u003eEvolution on Purpose\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233332506853,"sku":"NP9780262054836","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262054836.jpg?v=1767731450","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/lifes-chemical-secret-isbn-9780262054836","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}