We have already explored part of the answer. Erwin Schrödinger pointed out more than sixty years ago that life is different from the inorganic world because it is structured and orderly even at a molecular level. This order all the way down endows life with a kind of rigid leverage that connects the molecular to the macroscopic, such that quantum events taking place within individual biomolecules can have consequences for an entire organism: the kind of amplification from the quantum to the macroscopic asserted by that other quantum pioneer, Pascual Jordan.
