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Negentropy

Negentropy import is entropy export.

"Negentropy" is a term coined by Erwin Schrödinger in his popular-science book "What is life?" (1943).

Schrödinger introduced that term when explaining that a living system exports entropy in order to maintain its own entropy at a low level. By using the term "Negentropy", he could express this fact in a more "positive" way: A living system imports negentropy and stores it.

01-04-2007 01:18:14
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