Alexis Pietak, PhD, is a biophysicist, biomedical scientist, and author. Alexis divides her time between the ocean lapped shores of Dunedin, New Zealand, and the deciduous woodlands of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Life as Energy is her first book.
'Masterpiece of a brilliant young mind, Life as Energy exquisitely
illustrates the elemental links between the hidden dynamics of
energy physics, the connecting creativity of our planet's living
web, and the unhappy yearnings of our now profoundly out-of-place
human lives. Advancing the vision of such masterworks as James
Lovelock's Gaia and D'arcy Thompson's On Growth and Form, the world
needs more of Dr. Pietak's work soon.'
-- Dr. S. J. Goerner, Director The Integral Science Institute,
author of After the Clockwork Universe.
'Life as Energy is a wide ranging, well written, and readable book
drawing important parallels between physics concepts such as energy
and quantum mechanics system states and the characteristics of
complex living systems. The result is a novel framework that helps
make sense of biological life cycles, ecology, and sustainable
interactions with our environments. I am most impressed by the
clarity and breadth of the many concepts Life as Energy explains at
a level accessible to a general reader.'
-- Michael Sayer, Professor Emeritus of Physics at Queen’s
University, Canada
'Dr Pietak gives us a renewed appreciation for the awe-inspiring,
perplexing features of living systems and demonstrates how we can
utilise "imaginative rationality" in their scientific
comprehension. She also suggests how these alternative perspectives
can be applied in the fields of ecology, agriculture and
healthcare. Dr Pietak gifts us with a way to make a powerful
difference in how we live and how we relate with ecosystems and the
entire planet.'
-- Ruth Parnell, Nexus
'The book treats a combination of in-depth biology and science, and
can therefore be recommended to those who are interested in quantum
physics.'
-- Juul Hochsentbach, Choice Point Magazine
'This interesting and innovative book has much to offer. Author and
biophysicist Alexis Mari Pietak challenges us to adopt different
mindsets in her attempts to apply the principles of quantum
mechanics to leaf growth, and generalise her physics thinking to
ideas of thermodynamically optimal ecosystems and the central
notion of "Life as Energy".
'Ultimately I share Pietak's hope that "this work will provide a
new paradigm" not only for understanding "Life as Energy", but also
for a more "sustainable integration of human activities with the
natural world". Pietak's work parallels many studies by SNM members
(Goodwin, Ho, Sheldrake) and shares with these the desire to
promote a new holistic and organic science of life that dethrones
and reinvents old "-isms".
'In conclusion, "Life as Energy" is a bold, ambitious and visionary
attempt to again shake biology out of the materialistic doldrums.
Pietak is not the first to suggest the need for a "New Science of
Life", but she is definitely among a rather small community of
pioneers, and her contributions in this book are innovative,
important and "imaginative" in the best sense of the word.'
--Professor Martin Lockley, Scientific and Medical Network Review
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