How Life Works

How Life Works is the Philip Ball book named in EP256 AI时代，“自由意志”还存在吗？ as part of 土摩托’s path into free will. The episode uses the book less as a standalone reading summary than as a bridge from life science to meaning and agency.

Its source-scoped role is to support the claim that meaning can be understood as something life does, not only as a metaphysical supplement added after biology. That makes it adjacent to Biological Agency / 生物能动性 and Embodied Intelligence / 具身智能.

Connections

• Philip Ball - author.
• Biological Agency / 生物能动性 and Meaning As Evolved Function / 意义作为进化功能 - biological concepts opened through the book.
• Free Will / 自由意志 - philosophical question the episode routes back through life.