Schrödinger 1944 — What Is Life?
Schrödinger 1944 — What Is Life?
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Life is a thermodynamic trick: an organism stays alive by extracting order from its surroundings and exporting chaos back out.
Living systems do not cheat the Second Law of thermodynamics; they sidestep it by opening a window to export entropy.
A chromosome is an aperiodic crystal — a code-script far more ordered than any periodic lattice.
'Negentropy' is not a physical quantity; it is a qualitative metaphor, not a rigorous measure like Gibbs free energy.
Life operates as negative entropy — a gradient-driven whirlpool that builds its own walls and organizes its own fuel.
The rival frame to gradient-driven life is the fluctuation hypothesis: complex structures are rare accidents in a universe trending toward heat death.
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