In existographies, Peter M. Hoffmann (1968-) (CR:2) is an American physicist noted for his 2012 Life’s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos, in which he attempts to explain how the “seemingly purposeful motions” of humans, as “merely sophisticated structures of lifeless molecules”, originated, which supposedly has a decent life force and vital force historical introduction, a chapter on the entropy of a late night robber, citations of Aristotle, Democritus, Gottfried Leibniz and his "monad" theory, the Napoleon-Laplace anecdote that "banned God from the heavens", as Hoffmann puts it, Pierre Teilhard, Erwin Schrodinger, among others, discussing Helmholtz free energy along the way, albeit in the end using recourse to emergence and information theory. [1]“That crude matter should have originally formed itself according to mechanical laws, that life should have sprung from the nature of what is lifeless, that matter should have been able to dispose itself into the form of a self-maintaining purposiveness—that [is] contradictory to reason.”— Immanuel Kant (c.1770), Publication; cited by Peter Hoffmann (2012) in Life’s Ratchet (pg. #)