Negentropy

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The negentropy, also negative entropy or syntropy, of a living system is the entropy that it exports to keep its own entropy low; it lies at the intersection of entropy and life. The concept and phrase "negative entropy" were introduced by Erwin Schr dinger in his 1943 popular-science book What is Life? Later, L on Brillouin shortened the phrase to negentropy, to express it in a more "positive" way: a living system imports negentropy and stores it. In 1974, Albert Szent-Gy rgyi proposed replacing the term negentropy with syntropy. That term may have originated in the 1940s with the Italian mathematician Luigi Fantappi , who tried to construct a unified theory of biology and physics. Buckminster Fuller tried to popularize this usage, but negentropy remains common.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 551109479X
• ISBN13: 9785511094793
• Release Date: January 1
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