"Time as the Key to Understanding Life and Consciousness in Physics"

Physicists are using quantum biology to understand how living matter is different from inanimate matter, while astrobiologists are trying to create a new physical theory of life based on information theory. Living systems have low entropy, which seems to contradict the second law of thermodynamics. Quantum mechanics may be used by living systems to promote or halt quantum processes. Information seems to be crucial to life, and living organisms have an inbuilt set of instructions, DNA, which non-living things simply don’t have.