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user-inactivated  ·  2742 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 24th Fortnightly Quotality

serendipity. i have been meaning to submit this to hubski

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170126-information-theory-and-the-foundation-of-life/

    Even simple bacteria move with “purpose” toward sources of heat and nutrition. In his 1944 book What is Life?, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger expressed this by saying that living organisms feed on “negative entropy.”