Negentropy

• As a general rule, everything in the universe tends towards entropy
  • Systems tend to evolve toward thermodynamic equilibrium, where entropy is highest
    • Star systems eventually become dead
      • All energy has gone
      • Everything in the system is at the temperature of the surrounding space

• Negentropy is reverse entropy
  • Order appears out of perceived chaos or randomness
  • It is a temporary condition in which certain things are more hotter and highly organized than the surrounding space
  • Life is considered to be negentropic
    • It takes things in which have less order, like dead food, and turns it into things with more order, like cells in the body, tissues, and organs
      • In doing so, it gives off heat
  • Another example of negentropic things are societies, or social systems
    • They take disorderly things such as communications, and make them into order which is useful to people
  • Complexity phenomenon called self-organization is negentropic