An organism maintains its orderliness by continually extracting order from its environment, which it accomplishes by feeding on negative entropy.

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• What an organism feeds upon is negative entropy.quote0.814
  Schrödinger's pithy summary of how life maintains order.
• How Do Organisms Maintain Identity And Coherence Whilequestion0.808
• The living organism seems to be a macroscopic system which in part of its behaviour approaches that purely mechanical (as contrasted with thermodynamical) conduct to which all systems tend as the temperature approaches absolute zero.claim0.799
  Schrödinger's analogy highlighting that life maintains order akin to a system at very low temperature.
• Action places an upper bound on the entropy of biological states, thereby conserving structural and dynamical integrity.claim0.790
  Autopoietic aspect of active inference.
• Darwinian selective advantage alone cannot explain the appearance of global geometric order in organisms; an internal geometric ordering tendency must act together with selective pressure.claim0.782
  Alexander's argument that neo-Darwinism needs supplementation by internal dynamical ordering principles
• The living structure emerges, slowly, step by step, and as the process goes forward step by step there is continuous feedback which allows the process to guide the system towards greater wholeness, and coherence, and adaptation.quote0.777
  Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.
• Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.776
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• If the evolution of the natural world follows a step-by-step process in which each step is structure-preserving, then the fifteen properties will appear more and more often, and the degree of life in the wholeness will increase steadily.hypothesis0.775
  Conditional statement linking smooth unfolding to the progressive emergence of the fifteen properties and increased life.