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MENTAL MODEL · M1019

Negentropy

Negentropy
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

Life feeds on 'negentropy'. Organisms counteract their own entropy increase (aging, disorder) by ingesting orderliness (food, information) from the environment, thereby maintaining highly ordered structures.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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Actively ingest order. To remain vital, individuals and organizations must stay open and continuously input high-quality information and energy (negentropic flow). Closed systems are doomed.

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The system absorbs energy and order from the environment to reduce its own entropy and maintain structure (Schrödinger called this 'feeding on negentropy').

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