What is life?

Professor Masatoshi Murase received his PhD degree from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1987. In 1992, he became an associate professor at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Japan. Between 1987 to 1988 he was a visiting scientist at Duke University Medical Centre, USA, and from 1990 to 1991, an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of California at Davis USA. Between 1985 to 1992 he was a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan. In 1997, to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Hideki Yukawa, he chaired an international symposium at Kyoto University, entitled, "What is Life" The Next 100 Years of Yukawa's Dream?. The proceedings of this symposium appeared as a Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement No.173, 1-370 (2008). http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ptpwww/ He has more recently co- chaired the International & Interdisciplinary Symposium 2010 on "Novel Phenomena in Integrated Complex Sciences: from Non-living to Living Systems" http://kuchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kinso/IIW2010/HOME.html, and will chair the Kyoto University Forum 2011 on "Toward a Century of New Synthesis", and Hayashibara Forum 2011 on "Integrated Complex System Science: Life, Mind and Environment". He is the author of. "Dynamics of Cellular Motility" (John Wiley, 1992) and is also the author of "Life as History - Construction of Endo-Exo Circulation Theory" (Japanese language, Kyoto University Press, 2000, ISBN: 4-87698-403-4 C1045).