{"slug":"paper-schr-dinger-e-1944-what-is-life","verification":{"valid":true,"entries":1,"head":"64c0c802b94d1413325d8e38d05e88d4307d513a6da546e0b4fe5a50918daab6"},"count":1,"sources":[{"id":"s1","type":"other","url":"https://www.physik.uni-kl.de/eggert/statmech/what-is-life.pdf","title":"WHAT IS LIFE? by Erwin Schrödinger","quote":"Thus a living organism continually increases its entropy — or, as you may say, produces positive entropy — and thus tends to approach the dangerous state of maximum entropy, which is death. It can only keep aloof from it, i.e. alive, by continually drawing from its environment negative entropy","summary":"Primary text PDF containing the 1944 lectures with exact thermodynamic passages on negative entropy and order.","claim_ids":["c1","c2","c3"],"found_by":"grok/grok-4.3","extra":{},"accessed_at":"2026-07-07T06:55:56.422Z","link_status":"ok","quote_status":"unverified","prev":"genesis","hash":"64c0c802b94d1413325d8e38d05e88d4307d513a6da546e0b4fe5a50918daab6"}]}