The interference structures are not stable, but vary in concordance with the rather complex spatio-temporal interactions between field and matter. Keywords Energy Distribution, Entropy, Coherence, Biophotons, Consciousness, Placebo Effect. On the one hand this avoids a lot of confusion with definitions of, say, body, flesh, mind, spirit, consciousness, or soul. On the other hand, these two terms matter and energy may not suffice to describe the rather complicated phenomena that we call life . In order to understand the properties of matter, not only the material content is decisive but also the content and distribution of the energy over matter.
Examples are ice and water or relaxed and flexed muscles.
Actually, even the properties of dead materials are not understandable by the investigation of matter alone. As an example take the case of water and ice. However the properties are quite different. This difference is not based on different matter, but on different energy content which leads to different entropy of the aggregates. The entropy indicates how the available energy is distributed over a definite arrangement of matter.