Order (versus Disorder)

Low entropy, organized state; life maintains order by consuming negative entropy.

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Negative Entropy
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Schrödinger's concept that living systems maintain order by extracting 'negative entropy' (order) from environment, reconciling second law of thermodynamics.

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Order (general mathematical structure of space)concept0.795
A most general system of mathematical structures arising from the nature of space, which has degrees of life.
Disorder (Thermodynamic Chaos)concept0.790
High entropy state, the natural tendency described by the second law.
Order provides terminology, notation, and models across diverse areas of computer science including comparisons of size, information content, and definedness.claim0.784
What is the relationship between order and function?question0.774
Opening question that drives the chapter's enquiry.
The Nature of Orderconcept0.772
Four-volume work by Christopher Alexander providing foundational results for harmony-seeking computation, including the concept of wholeness and the fifteen properties.
Information Orderingconcept0.762
Order relations modeling approximation and information content; appears in string prefixes, interval approximations, and partial maps.
A-periodic orderconcept0.761
The complex, non-repeating order of a living neighborhood, analogous to Schrödinger's description of DNA.
The kind of order that occurs in living structure has a complexity not usually describable by drawings or by architectural images.claim0.746
Emphasizes the non-pictorial, process-dependent nature of living order.