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Negentropy

A term used in information theory as a measurement of distance to normality, used in statistics and signal processing. Related to network entropy, negentropy is understood to be the information that can be saved through efficiency.

In biology, the concept was first put forward by Edwin Schroedinger in his 1943 book, What is Life? in which the term was equivalent to free energy by which biological systems increase organization rather than fall prey to thermodynamic entropy which would tend the system toward equilibrium (and would not accommodate life).

Mae Wan Ho's 1994 paper, "What is (Schrodinger's Negentropy? [Trends in BioThermoKinetics 3] explores the concept in terms of biophysics and nonlinear systems, using coupled cycles in dissipative structures, toward a thermodynamics of organized complexity.

Web Resources On Negentropy

What is (Schrodinger's) Negentropy?
Negentropy (Wikipedia)
Negentropy

Book Resources On Negentropy

The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe by Lynne Mctaggart
Why Beauty is Truth: A History of Symmetry by Ian Stewart

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