What an organism feeds upon is negative entropy.

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• An organism maintains its orderliness by continually extracting order from its environment, which it accomplishes by feeding on negative entropy.claim0.814
  Schrödinger's central claim about how life evades thermodynamic equilibrium.
• Negative Entropyconcept0.771
  Schrödinger's concept that living systems maintain order by extracting 'negative entropy' (order) from environment, reconciling second law of thermodynamics.
• 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.claim0.736
  Schrödinger's analogy highlighting that life maintains order akin to a system at very low temperature.
• What Parameters Determine Where Organisms Fall On Thequestion0.731
• All organisms are collectives at multiple levels: from collections of active molecules in a cell, to collections of cells in a multicellular organism, to collections of tissues.claim0.729
  Extends the collective view to all biological individuals.
• Action places an upper bound on the entropy of biological states, thereby conserving structural and dynamical integrity.claim0.724
  Autopoietic aspect of active inference.
• Collective intelligence exists on a spectrum across biology from cells to organismsclaim0.721
  Authors argue no sharp distinction exists between familiar animal cognition and collective behavior in cells/tissues; same principles apply across scales and substrates.
• We feel degrees of life in different organisms, even though technically they all have equal biological life.claim0.720
  Summarizes the observation of graded life within the category of living things.