Without the features of quantum mechanics mentioned by Schrödinger, reliable biological reproduction of known forms of life would be impossible.

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• Newtonian mechanics augmented by statistical mechanics cannot explain chemical bond stability or genetic persistence; quantum mechanics is necessary.claim0.809
• Schrödinger's Theory of Life Based on Quantum Stability and Negative Entropyframework0.797
  The overarching framework that life maintains order by extracting negative entropy from the environment, built on aperiodic crystals as hereditary material.
• Quantum mechanics is essential for explaining long-term stability of genetic structures against thermal perturbation.claim0.795
  Central claim: without quantum-mechanical energy thresholds and discrete states, hereditary information could not survive across generations.
• Much of what is written by philosophers of science is either false or incomplete because they do not take account of the implications of Schrödinger's ideas for chemistry and biology.claim0.786
  Sloman's broad methodological critique of philosophy of science.
• Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.780
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• No alternative to molecular explanation of hereditary substance exists; physical laws leave no other possibility.claim0.779
• Quantum theory permits both long-term structural stability and discrete discontinuous changes—both required for genetic inheritance and mutation.finding0.768
• Unnoticed consequences of Schrödinger's ideas support claims about layers of mechanism in which the higher level layers require control mechanisms whose functions cannot be described in the language of fundamental physics.claim0.766
  Sloman's extension of Schrödinger's argument to brain mechanisms and virtual machinery.