Life Feeds on Negative Entropy
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment.
Notes:
It sucks the orderliness from its environment.
Taxonomies:
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Keywords:
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Concepts:
Life (0.976830): dbpedia | freebase
Entropy (0.667023): dbpedia | freebase
Biology (0.666563): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc
Organism (0.539730): dbpedia | freebase
Entropy and life (0.515079): dbpedia | freebase
Gene (0.487935): dbpedia | freebase
Environment (0.481837): dbpedia | freebase
Virus (0.468782): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc
What is Life?Schemas
Science Koans
Riddles and paradoxes of existence that might crack your noodle on which to meditate.
Life Fights Entropy
Memes on the fact that life is increasing organization in a world of increasing chaos. 