This profound thought was originally suggested by JAK.
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Originally Posted by JAK "How would we express in terms of the statistical theory the marvellous faculty of a living organism, by which it delays the decay into thermodynamical equilibrium (death)? We said before: 'It feeds upon negative entropy' ... entropy, taken with the negative sign, is itself a measure of order. 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." - Schrödinger, Erwin. What is Life? NEW YORK: Cambridge University Press, 1944 |
References- This is an excerpt from "What is Life?" and provides more context to the quote above. I recommend that you read this before responding to this thread.
- This article is part of JAK's Theory of Mind website where he supplies context to this quote from his viewpoint of a theory unifying the mind and emotion.
- Another interesting document that contains this quote. It is titled "Meaning-Based Natural Intelligence vs Information-Based Artificial Intelligence". This is a 67 page pdf document.
Let the discussion begin...