Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Biology

TL;DR

This paper argues that the fine-tuning of physical laws for life is highly improbable, suggesting that the structure of physical laws is more 'unreasonable' than previously thought, especially in chemistry.

Contribution

It provides a probabilistic argument showing the overdetermined nature of life's fine-tuning constraints and their implications for the structure of physical laws.

Findings

Feasibility of life constraints is extremely low probability.

The physical laws are more 'unreasonable' than Wigner's concept.

Chemical sector constraints are particularly improbable.

Abstract

We demonstrate that the system of fine-tuning constraints for life is, in a sense, overdetermined: the a priori probability of its feasibility is extremely low, especially in the chemical sector. This entails that the structure of the physical laws is even more "unreasonable" than Eugene Wigner envisaged.