Following Schrödinger's Code: A Personal Journey.

On a wintery afternoon over 60 years ago, I was browsing the Baker Library stacks at Dartmouth College and stumbled across a small book with an arresting name: "What Is Life?" [Schrödinger, E. . Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1944]. This small volume contained numerous concepts, which would transform the future of the biological sciences, giving rise to new fields, dogmas, approaches, and debates. Here, I present the core concepts of Schrödinger's book, the influence they have had on biology, and the influence they may continue to have on the cognitive neurosciences.